200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the late 1980s it was felt that World War III could start in the Pacific. Long regarded by the USA as an American lake, the Pacific was now a focus of competition between the superpowers. The USSR, whose nuclear-arms navy was limited to their north Pacific ports, now had a major new naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. In response to this new threat, the Americans were planning more urgently... Read more
Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Where to Test? 2. Bravo 3. Unto the Promised Land 4. ‘It Turns Out We Were Wrong’ 5. Staying While Leaving 6. Islands with a Military Future 7. ‘Where Aboriginals Could Not Be’ 8. Raison d’état 9. Moruroa 10. Why the French Love the Bomb 11. Crisis in ANZUS 12. Becoming Nuclear Free 13. Epilogue. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Stewart Firth
