Article ID: CBB327362061

Negotiating Armageddon: civil defence in NATO and Denmark 1949-59 (2023)

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Bjoernsson, Iben (Author)


Cold War History
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Pages: 217-238
Publication date: 2023
Language: English


This article follows NATO civil defence planning in the first decade of its existence and asks if and to what extend this affected civil defence in Denmark, a small member state on the front line. The investigation shows a marked shift in NATO planning from the mid-1950s with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. It also shows that Denmark was not unmindful of NATOs recommendations, but in some cases insisted that regional factors must decide practical outcomes. However, even when it did not decide outcomes, NATO brokered cooperation and served as forum for exchange of knowledge.

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Authors & Contributors
Sylvest, Casper
Turchetti, Simone
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Hargittai, Balazs
Hargittai, István
Hoddeson, Lillian Hartmann
Journals
Cold War History
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Technology and Culture
Environmental History
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
Cornell University Press
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Routledge
World Scientific
University of California, San Diego
Concepts
Cold War
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Civil defense
Military technology
Science and politics
Foreign relations; diplomacy
People
Nixon, Richard M.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Stalin, Joseph
Szilard, Leo
Teller, Edward
Von Neumann, John
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Europe
Soviet Union
Denmark
Sweden
Great Britain
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
United States Air Force (USAF)
United Nations
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
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