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Pierre Trudeau and the “Suffocation” of the Nuclear Arms Race (SWP 52)

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Date created
2016
Authors/Contributors
Author: Meyer, Paul
Abstract
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is known for his challenge to Canada’s NATO policy at the beginning of his tenure in power and his peace initiative at its end. Less well known is his support for innovative arms control policies designed to eliminate the technological impetus behind the nuclear arms race between the US and the USSR during the Cold War. At the first UN Special Session on Disarmament in May 1978, Trudeau delivered a speech outlining a “strategy of suffocation” that provided a novel package of four arms control measures that, taken as a whole, would represent an effective means of halting and eventually reversing the nuclear arms race. Although the superpowers were largely indifferent to them, these ideas helped spur the Department of External Affairs to invest in developing the institutional capacity to enable Canada to play a leadership role in future disarmament diplomacy.
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Paul Meyer homepage:http://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/about-us/fellows.html#Meyer
Identifier
ISSN 1922-5725
Published as
Meyer, Paul. 2016. “Pierre Trudeau and the “Suffocation” of the Nuclear Arms Race.” International Journal 71(3), September 2016. SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. http://online.sagepub.com DOI 10.1177/00207020/6662798.
Publication title
International Journal
Document title
Pierre Trudeau and the “Suffocation” of the Nuclear Arms Race (SWP 52)
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Date
2016
Volume
71
Issue
3
Publisher DOI
10.1177/00207020/6662798.
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Copyright is held by the author(s).
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Peer reviewed?
Yes
Language
English

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