Atoms for Peace and Nuclear Hegemony: The Rhetorical Structure of a Cold War Campaign

Armed Forces & Society

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 571-593

  Medhurst, Martin J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84990341093     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X9702300403     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower: The President (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), 150.
2. Peter Lyon, Eisenhower: Portrait of the Hero (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974), 620.
3. Robert A. Strong, “Eisenhower and Arms Control,” in Reevaluating Eisenhower: American Foreign Policy in the 1950s, ed. Richard A. Melanson and David Mayers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 241.
4. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Address by Dwight D. Eisenhower on Psychological Warfare, October 8, 1952.” This quotation comes from an extract of the speech located in the CD. Jackson Records, 1953-54, Box 2, “Robert Cutler.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas. Hereafter abbreviated as DDE Library.
5. On Eisenhower as a grand strategist, see Steven Metz, “Eisenhower and the Planning of American Grand Strategy,” The Journal of Strategic Studies 14 (1991): 49-71. Metz does not deal with Atoms for Peace in his analysis, but he does note that “Because of the holistic nature of the Soviet threat, the New Look was to integrate political, psychological, economic, and military dimensions,” 55.
6. For an analysis of Eisenhower's speaking on the subject of the H-Bomb, see Rachel L. Holloway, “'Keeping the Faith': Eisenhower Introduces the Hydrogen Age,” in Eisenhower's War of Words: Rhetoric and Leadership, ed. Martin J. Medhurst (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1994), 47-72.
7. Gordon Dean, quoted in Roger M. Anders, ed., Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts from the Office Diary of Gordon E. Dean (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), 234.
8. Richard G. Hewlett and Jack M. Holl, Atoms for Peace and War 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 15.
9. On Eisenhower's first inaugural address as an instance of cold war deliberative rhetoric see Martin J. Medhurst, “President Dwight D. Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address, 1953,” in The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents, ed. Halford Ryan (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993), 153-166.
10. NSC 162/2 as quoted in John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 124.
11. James D. Weaver, “Eisenhower as Commander in Chief,” in Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier, President, Statesman, ed. Joann P. Kreig (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987), 139.
12. On massive retaliation as a rhetorical strategy, see Mark J. Schaefermeyer, “Dulles and Eisenhower on 'Massive Retaliation,'” in Eisenhower's War of Words, 27-46.
13. Hewlett and Holl, Atoms for Peace and War, 179-180.
14. Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), 172.
15. Ronald E. Powaski, March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 60.
16. Gordon Dean quoted in Roger M. Anders, Forging the Atomic Shield, 244.
17. Hewlett and Holl, Atoms for Peace and War, 113-114.
18. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Special Message to the Congress Recommending Amendments to the Atomic Energy Act, 17 February 1954,” Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955), 263-264, 269.
19. Hewlett and Holl, Atoms for Peace and War, 112.
20. John Foster Dulles, quoted in Mark Cioc, Pax Atomica: The Nuclear Defense Debate in West Germany During the Adenauer Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 6.
21. Lewis L. Strauss, “Remarks for Delivery to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Monday, 19 April 1954,” Whitman File, Administration Series, Box 4, AEC, 1953-54 (4). DDE Library.
22. Cioc, Pax Atomica 28.
23. Cioc, Pax Atomica, 35.
24. Weart, Nuclear Fear, 164.
25. Strong, “Eisenhower on Arms Control,” 247-248.