The US-UK Nuclear Relationship: Not Just a Measure for the Cold War

The US-UK Nuclear Relationship: Not Just a Measure for the Cold War

In 1958 the United States and United Kingdom signed the Mutual Defense Agreement which allowed the two countries to share information and technology concerning nuclear weapons. This paper examines the history of this agreement and the Polaris and Trident Sales agreements which followed. The main foc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahan, David
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2017
Subjects:
nuclear
relationship
US-UK
Trident
Mutual Defense Agreement
why
American Politics
International Relations
Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1603
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2729&context=cmc_theses
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Summary:In 1958 the United States and United Kingdom signed the Mutual Defense Agreement which allowed the two countries to share information and technology concerning nuclear weapons. This paper examines the history of this agreement and the Polaris and Trident Sales agreements which followed. The main focus of the paper is the motivating interests of both countries to maintain these agreements today.

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