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Fallout (Hardcover)
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Fallout (Hardcover)
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Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school
desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis--a
clear representation of how terrified the United States was of
nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing such
catastrophe, and this is partly due to the various treaties signed
in the 1960s forswearing the use of nuclear technology for military
purposes.
In "Fallout, " Gregoire Mallard seeks to understand why some
nations agreed to these limitations of their sovereign will--and
why others decidedly did not. He builds his investigation around
the 1968 signing of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT),
which, though binding in nature, wasn't adhered to consistently by
all signatory nations. Mallard looks at Europe's observance of
treaty rules in contrast to the three holdouts in the global
nonproliferation regime: Israel, India, and Pakistan. He seeks to
find reasons for these discrepancies, and makes the compelling case
that who wrote the treaty and how the rules were written--whether
transparently, ambiguously, or opaquely--had major significance in
how the rules were interpreted and whether they were then followed
or dismissed as regimes changed. In honing in on this important
piece of the story, Mallard not only provides a new perspective on
our diplomatic history, but, more significantly, draws important
conclusions about potential conditions that could facilitate the
inclusion of the remaining NPT holdouts. "Fallout "is an important
and timely book sure to be of interest to policy makers, activists,
and concerned citizens alike.
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