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The Nuclear Challenge: Italian Foreign Policy and Atomic Weapons, 1945-1991
By admin | febbraio 27, 2009
Washington D.C. - Cold War International History Project - February 17, 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
For much of the Cold War, the Italian government viewed the nuclear issue as a way of opening the door into the inner circle of European security decision-makers. Leopoldo Nuti, Director of the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, explained that Italian prestige, much more than security concerns, drove the government to allow the deployment of NATO nuclear weapons on Italian soil throughout the Cold War.
In a presentation based upon his recent book The Nuclear Challenge: Italian Foreign Policy and Atomic Weapons, 1945-1991, Nuti discussed the process by which the Italian government used its position in NATO to advance its own national agenda.
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