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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article focuses primarily on the nuclear relationship between the two countries with specific emphasis placed on the U.S.-Soviet Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War, signed in Washington between President Richard Nixon and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev on June 22, 1973. Known by the British as "Operation Hullabaloo," and conducted in great secrecy, Britain's involvement was significantly greater than acknowledged at the time. Far from being bit players lurking in the wings of the Cold War, British officials were integral to the negotiations and largely responsible for drafting the treaty. But the dictates imposed in maintaining an exclusive bilateral relationship with Washington were often at variance with the need to develop a European security identity.
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