Nuclear Reactions by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

Excerpted from David E. Lilienthal, Change, Hope and the Bomb (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963). Copyright © 1963 David E. Lilienthal. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. Pp. 9–10, 18–20, 148–49, 160–62, 167–68.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

“ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON THE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY,” 1963

The Cuban Missile Crisis prompted new thinking about the arms race on both sides of the Cold War and fresh climate for negotiation. Although domestic opponents of nuclear testing had begun to question the environmental impacts of radioactivity and fallout, most experts point to other motivations for the agreement, such as the cost of testing, the need to moderate Cold War tensions, and the concern about nuclear proliferation. Over a hundred countries eventually signed the treaty, which banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater, although not underground. How does President Kennedy describe the agreement? What, according to Kennedy, motivated this agreement? What role do environmental concerns play? How does he propose to get outside the cycle of Cold War tension and response?

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