The United States and the Nuclear Dimension of European Integration

The US was a dominant actor in the European integration game in the 1950s, although not normally a formal participant at the negotiation table. The Americans promoted integration based on Franco-German reconciliation and sought to prevent the emergence of nationally controlled nuclear weapons in Germany and France and developments toward an independent European ´Third Force´. Based on material from American, British, French and German archives the book covers the negotiations about the European Defence Community, the Western European Union and Euratom/the Common Market. The Eisenhower Administration had two paramount and interrelated goals in its European policy in the formative years preceding the Treaties of Rome: integration and non-proliferation. The US promoted supranational integration based on Franco-German reconciliation, and sought to prevent the emergence of nationally-controlled nuclear weapons in Germany and France and developments toward a future European þThird Forceþ outside NATO. The US was a dominant actor in the European integration game, although not normally a formal participant at the negotiation table. This book studies American policy in the negotiations about the European Defence Community, the Western European Union and the twin Messina projects, Euratom and the Common Market. It is based on material from American, British, French and German archives, much of it previously unused Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The European Policy of the Eisenhower Administration; Double Containment and European Integration; Nuclear Foreign Policy and Arms Control; Nuclear Foreign Policy and Integration Policy; Atoms for War; Atoms for Peace; Support for Political and Economic Integration in Western Europe; Reconciling Nuclear Policy and Integration Policy; 2 The Nuclear Dimension of the European Defence Community; The Inherited Package: Arms Control in the EDC Treaty 1951-52; The Additional Protocols of 1953; American and British Planning Annotation The US was a dominant actor in the European integration game in the 1950s, although not normally a formal participant at the negotiation table. The Americans promoted integration based on Franco-German reconciliation and sought to prevent the emergence of nationally controlled nuclear weapons in Germany and France and developments toward an independent European Third Force. Based on material from American, British, French and German archives the book covers the negotiations about the European Defence Community, the Western European Union and Euratom/the Common Market

The US was a dominant actor in the European integration game in the 1950s, although not always formally present at the negotiation table. The Americans promoted integration based on Franco-German reconciliation and sought to prevent the emergence of nationally controlled nuclear weapons in Germany and France and developments toward an independent European "Third Force". Based on material from American, British, French and German archives the book covers the negotiations about the European Defence Community, the Western European Union and Euratom/the Common Market.

Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-9 The European Policy of the Eisenhower Administration....Pages 10-36 The Nuclear Dimension of the European Defence Community....Pages 37-64 The Nuclear Dimension of the Western European Union....Pages 65-113 Euratom and the Linkage to the Common Market: First Phase....Pages 114-185 Euratom and the Linkage to the Common Market: Second Phase....Pages 186-252 Conclusion: Integration and Non-Proliferation....Pages 253-257 Back Matter....Pages 258-331