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Pearson and Canada’s Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957

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Full Title

Pearson and Canada\'s Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957

Author(s)

Joseph Levitt

Edition
ISBN

9780773563377, 9780773509054

Publisher

McGill-Queen\'s University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In Pearson and Canada’s Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations Joseph Levitt traces the history of these negotiations from the Canadian diplomatic perspective. He analyses the various proposals and documents the reactions of Pearson and his colleagues. Levitt reveals Pearson’s own view of the strategic stalemate between the USSR and the United States — Pearson did not believe that an open and liberal society such as the United States would ever launch an unprovoked offensive on the USSR; he thought instead that the danger of a major military confrontation arose only from the possibility that the Soviet Union might attack. Consequently the main thrust of Canadian diplomatic activity in these negotiations was not prevention of an American arms build-up but support of a strategy which would compel the USSR to accept an agreement that would benefit the Americans militarily or, failing that, to hold the Soviets responsible for the impasse in the talks and thus win the all-important propaganda war.