The Falklands Sting: Reagan, Thatcher, and Argentina's BombOf all the books written on the Falklands War, none has dealt with the central issue: Argentina's rapidly developing nuclear weapons program. This supposed secret was known to the U.S. government, which was strongly opposed to nuclear proliferation. A second, but seemingly unrelated, American foreign policy problem was how to strengthen Margaret Thatcher, who was on the verge of being toppled as British prime minister. |
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Argentina Militarizes Under the Junta | 3 |
A Strategic Convergence | 29 |
The Rhodesian Solution | 36 |
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