Security cooperation as a way to stop the spread of nuclear weapons?: nuclear nonproliferation policies of the United States towards the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, 1945-1968 [Elektronische Ressource] / Makreeta Lahti

Makreeta Lahti PhD dissertation University of Potsdam Department of Economics and Social Science Submitted 19 Dec 2007 Accepted 4 Jul 2008 Security Cooperation as a Way to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons? Nuclear Nonproliferation Policies of the United States towards the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, 1945-1968 Published online at the Institutional Repository of the University of Potsdam: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3145/ urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-31459 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-31459] To my parents, Marja Hirvisalo-Lahti and Tapio Lahti I am thankful for the financial support I received for this study from the German Academic Exchange Service, the L. B. Johnson Foundation, and the J. F. Kennedy Library Foundation; for getting access to the collections of the US National Archives, the L. B. Johnson Archives, the J. F. Kennedy Archives, the US Library of Congress Manuscript Collection, and the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany; to Francis Gavin for his willingness to be a examiner of this dissertation; and for supervision of this dissertation, and invaluable advice, to Otto Keck.