The Anzus Crisis, Nuclear Visiting and Deterrence

by Michael C. Pugh

The deployment of nuclear weapons has been a critical problem for the NATO alliance. Opposition to nuclear tests within the Southern Hemisphere has developed with the creation of a South Pacific Free Zone and the decision by the New Zealand Government to ban port visits by vessels believed to be carrying nuclear weapons. This attempt to disengage from nuclear deterrence provoked a crisis in the ANZUS alliance with Australia and the United States that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521343550
• ISBN13: 9780521343558
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"