Bargaining on Nuclear Tests

Bargaining on Nuclear Tests tells the yet untold story of how Washington under Ronald Reagan's presidency duplicated the nuclear deal on ambiguity reached with Israel in 1969 in its dealings with Pakistan and South Africa in 1981. These three states were all allied with America during the Cold War and they ended up adopting similar strategies in their relations with Washington; they promised not to embarrass Washington by conducting nuclear tests in return for getting other benefits from Washington. It puts the story of nuclear tests - and how Washington tried to prevent them in some cases, at the heart of a new Cold War historical narrative.