Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire

Author: Gerald Hensley

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1775580709

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In 1984, the newly elected Labour Government's antinuclear policy collided with a United States foreign policy based on nuclear deterrence. After two years of angry meetings, fraught diplomacy, and free-wheeling press conferences, this outbreak of &“friendly fire&” led to the unraveling of the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) military alliance, established in 1951. Based on previously classified government files in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom as well as interviews with key protagonists and the author's own involvement in events, this account tells the inside story of this dramatic confrontation. This is the definitive account of a key turning point in New Zealand history and a dramatic story of powerful personalities tackling critical questions on the world stage.

ANZUS in Crisis
ANZUS in Crisis

Author: Jacob Bercovitch

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1988-06-18

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1349088706

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The issues involved in this book are complex and go to the heart of how alliances, the basic units of the current structure of international security, should function.

Background to the Anzus Pact
Background to the Anzus Pact

Author: W. McIntyre

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1994-12-07

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 0230380077

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This book contains a detailed analysis of American, British, Australian and New Zealand strategic planning during the early years of the Cold War, including their plans for fighting World War III in the Middle East, and the diplomatic negotiations leading up to the security treaty signed by Australia, New Zealand and the United States in 1951. It considers the problems raised by Britain's exclusion from Anzus and the subsequent creation of Seato and the British Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve in Malaya.

The ANZUS Crisis, Nuclear Visiting and Deterrence
The ANZUS Crisis, Nuclear Visiting and Deterrence

Author: Michael Pugh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0521343550

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The development of nuclear weapons has been a critical problem for the NATO alliance. In the Pacific, a region of increasing strategic interest for the United States and Soviet Union, nuclear weapons have been an environmental concern since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Opposition to nuclear tests has now been taken a step further with the creation of a South pacific Nuclear Free Zone and the decision by a New Zealand Government to ban port visits by vessels believed to be carrying nuclear weapons. New Zealand's proposal to back its policy with legislation had been seen by the Reagan and Thatcher administrations as a threat to the principle of 'neither confirm nor deny' the presence of nuclear weapons on vessels. This 1989 study examines the questions of principle at issue, the evolution of the ANZUS crisis, its implications for the Western alliance structure as a whole, and the degree to which the 'nuclear-free' virus' in the South Pacific might be catching.

ANZUS in Revision
ANZUS in Revision

Author: Frank P. Donnini

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Colonel Donnini analyzes the demise of the ANZUS alliance and shifts in Australian and New Zealand defense features. He addresses many questions and issues dealing with changing the political situation and the impact of those changes on defense and security conditions in the South and Southwest Pacific regions.