Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: the tradition of nuclear non-use
- 2 Explaining non-use
- 3 Hiroshima and the origins of the nuclear taboo
- 4 The Korean War: the emerging taboo
- 5 The rise of the nuclear taboo, 1953–1960
- 6 Nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War
- 7 Institutionalizing the taboo, 1960–1989
- 8 The 1991 Gulf War
- 9 The taboo in the post-Cold War world
- 10 Conclusion: the prospects for the nuclear taboo
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- References
Select bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: the tradition of nuclear non-use
- 2 Explaining non-use
- 3 Hiroshima and the origins of the nuclear taboo
- 4 The Korean War: the emerging taboo
- 5 The rise of the nuclear taboo, 1953–1960
- 6 Nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War
- 7 Institutionalizing the taboo, 1960–1989
- 8 The 1991 Gulf War
- 9 The taboo in the post-Cold War world
- 10 Conclusion: the prospects for the nuclear taboo
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- References
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- The Nuclear TabooThe United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945, pp. 397 - 430Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007