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      An Intellectual History of Nuclear Arms Control, 1945–1960

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      An Intellectual History of Nuclear Arms Control, 1945–1960
      ByJennifer E. Sims
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1990
      eBook Published 31 May 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429043093
      Pages 274
      eBook ISBN 9780429043093
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      Sims, J.E. (1990). Icarus Restrained: An Intellectual History of Nuclear Arms Control, 1945–1960 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429043093

      ABSTRACT

      The author cites that this is a study of the nature and origins of the dominant post-war approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted. The study ends with the early 1960s by which time the central t

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part Part One|45 pages

      Delimiting the Approach

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|27 pages

      The Cambridge Approach

      part Part Two|79 pages

      Arms Control as Political Instrument

      chapter 3|32 pages

      The Age of Atomic Innocence

      chapter 4|45 pages

      The Open World: Arms Control as an Instrument for Achieving Long-Term Political Stability

      part Part Three|115 pages

      Arms Control as Security Instrument

      chapter 5|39 pages

      From the Age of Innocence to the Balance of Terror: Nuclear Arms Control Thought Comes of Age

      chapter 6|57 pages

      Arms Control Theorists of the 1950s

      chapter 7|17 pages

      The Cambridge Approach Revisited and Reviewed

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