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Particular generalisation: the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 in relation to the anti-nuclear movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

Jason Kendall Moore
Jason Kendall Moore*
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Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos y Polares, Balmaceda 37-121, Recreo Víña del Mar, V Región, Chile
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Abstract

This article presents the US role in the formation of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 in relation to the era's anti-nuclear movement. The purpose is two-fold: to highlight the strategic orientation of US Antarctic policy, suggesting that it was less enlightened than it is frequently portrayed; and to highlight the influence of the anti-nuclear movement upon the treaty's inclusion of a test ban which the United States initially opposed, hoping to reserve the right to conduct nuclear tests. The treaty is depicted as a particular generalisation: one aspect of the cold war that gains significance when scrutinised in relation to another that is much better-known.

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Polar Record , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 115 - 125
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