Containment

Abstract: List of Maps. Introduction. 1. The Twisting Path to War. 2. The War in Europe. 3. The War in Asia. 4. The Beginnings of the Cold War. 5.The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. 6. Containment Tested. 7. Korea. 8. Eisenhower, Dulles and the Irreconcilable Conflict. 9. From Hungary and Suez to Cuba. 10. Kennedy and the New Frontiers. 11. Vietnam: Paying the Cost of Containment. 12. Nixon, D tente, and the Debacle in Vietnam. 13. America in the Middle East and Africa. 14. Carter and the National Malaise. 15. Reagan and the Evil Empire. 16. The End of the Cold War. 17. Bush and the Gulf War. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index.

Abstract: Introduction: the big picture John R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger Part I. Science and Planning: 1. War on nature as part of the Cold War: the strategic and ideological roots of environmental degradation in the USSR Paul Josephson 2. Creating Cold War climates: the laboratories of American globalism Matthew Farish 3. A global contamination zone: early Cold War planning for environmental warfare Jacob Darwin Hamblin 4. Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War: weather control, the United States, and India, 1966-7 Kristine Harper and Ronald E. Doel 5. Containing communism by impounding rivers: American strategic interests and the global spread of high dams in the early Cold War Richard Tucker Part II. Geopolitics and the Environment: 6. Environmental impacts of nuclear testing in remote Oceania: 1946-96 Mark D. Merlin and Ricardo M. Gonzalez 7. A curtain of silence: Asia's fauna in the Cold War Greg Bankoff 8. Against protocol: ecocide, detente, and the question of chemical warfare in Vietnam, 1969-75 David Zierler 9. Environmental crisis and soft politics: detente and the global environment, 1968-75 Kai Hunemorder Part III. Environmentalisms: 10. The new ecology of power: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era R. Samuel Deese 11. Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the debate on risk knowledge in Cold War America, 1945-63 Toshihiro Higuchi 12. The evolution of environmental problems and environmental policy in China: interaction of internalization and externalization Bao Maohong Part IV. Epilogue: 13. The end of the Cold War: a turning point in environmental history? Frank Uekoetter.

Abstract: Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's 'New Look' programme of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent and sustainable strategy for addressing the issues unique to the nuclear age. To this end, he designated a decision-making system centered around the National Security Council to take full advantage of the expertise and data from various departments and agencies and of the judgment of his principal advisors. The result was the formation of a "long haul" strategy of preventing war and Soviet expansion and of mitigating Soviet hostility. Only now, in the aftermath of the Cold War, can Eisenhower's achievement be fully appreciated. Waging Peace will be of interest to scholars and students of the Eisenhower era, diplomatic history, the cold war, and contemporary foreign policy.