History Lessons of Non Proliferation

Lessons of Non-Proliferation
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Couloumbis, Ahlstrom & Weaver, RCW
The roots of the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) go back to 1946 when the U.S. proposed that all nations renounce nuclear weapons and that it turn over all its enriched uranium and its atomic weapons to the United Nations. Opposed by the Soviets, the so-called "Baruch Plan" died.There is no doubt that nuclear weapons, first and only once used to compel behavior, immediately lost the ability to compel behavior as soon as the Soviets acquired them in 1949. So strategy shifted (even if the general public was not aware of it) to deterrence: A credible threat to retaliate against Soviet..