Susan Colbourn is a post-doctoral fellow in international security studies at Yale University. Her research has also appeared in Cold War History and the International History Review, among other publications. Timothy Andrews Sayle is an assistant professor of history and director of the International Relations Program at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order.Contributors: Jack Cunningham, Katie Davis, Ryan Dean, Se Young Jang, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Asa McKercher, Michael D. Stevenson, and Matthew S. Wiseman

• Foreword / Robert BothwellIntroduction: Nuclear if Necessary, but Not Necessarily Nuclear / Susan ColbournPart 1: A Seat at the Table1 Very Close Together: Balancing Canadian Interests on Atomic Energy Control, 1945–46 / Katie Davis2 "We Do Not Wish to Be Obstructionist": How Canada Took and Kept a Seat on NATO's Nuclear Planning Group / Timothy Andrews SaylePart 2: Political Powderkegs3 Howard Green, Disarmament, and Canadian-American Defence Relations, 1959–63: "A Queer, Confused World" / Michael D. Stevenson4 Neutralism, Nationalism, and Nukes, Oh My! Revisiting Peacemaker or Powder-Monkey and Canadian Strategy in the Nuclear Age / Asa McKercher5 The Road to Scarborough: Lester Pearson and Nuclear Weapons, 1954–63 / Jack CunninghamPart 3: In Search of Nuclear Tasks at Home and Abroad6 Who's Going to Invade Arctic Canada, Anyway? Debating the Acquisition of the Nuclear Submarine in the 1980s / Susan Colbourn7 "Baptism by Fire": Canadian Soldiers and Radiation Exposure at Nevada and Maralinga / Matthew S. WisemanPart 4: Importing by Accident, Exporting by Design8 A Northern Nuclear Nightmare? Operation Morning Light and the Recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978 / Ryan Dean and P. Whitney Lackenbauer9 Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards: The Transformation of Canada's Nuclear Policy towards Argentina and South Korea after India's 1974 Nuclear Test / Se Young JangConclusion: Nuclear Victorians / Timothy Andrews SayleIndex

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