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Kennedy, Macmillan, and Nuclear Weapons. By Donette Murray. (New York: St. Martin's, 2000. x, 220 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-312-22221-1.)
British scholars continue to find Anglo-- American relations a compelling topic and persevere in the quest to uncover the true nature of the special relationship. Some have celebrated it, some have questioned its very existence, but, whatever the perspective, it continues to provide the main intellectual framework for British studies of issues and events in relations between Britain and the United States since 1940. This study continues in that tradition. Donette Murray sets out to analyze the relations between the two countries over nuclear weapons between 1960 and 1963 or, more specifically, over the British nuclear deterrent. She finds those relations to deteriorate in late 1962 into their worst crisis since the conflict over the Suez Canal in 1956. At this point Secretary of Defense Robert...