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January 1[edit]

Nuclear disarmament plan by USA and USSR in 1945/1946?[edit]

Hello, I'm having a lot of trouble finding any information on the development of nuclear disarmament plan proposed by the USA right after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I have (grade 12) assignment on answering the question "why didn't the USA follow through on a disarmament plan" and the source reading (I do online school) links to this: http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture14.html where it gets that information from. But, I have not been able to find other sources on this supposed plan, and I am having difficulty forming an opinion on the topic when all I know about it comes from one source, and one paragraph. It's the twelfth paragraph, and the gist of it is: "the United States developed a disarmament plan based on turning over all fissionable materials, plants and bombs to an international regulatory agency. The Soviets responded quickly with their own plan which stipulated nothing less than a total ban on the production of all fissionable material." TLDR: Was there a proposal right after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans proposing that an independent international body took possession of all fissionable materials, and was there also a counter proposal by the Soviets declaring that all fissionable materials should be destroyed and existing bombs be destroyed? Thank you. --Navvvrisk (talk) 00:20, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See Baruch Plan, paying particular attention to the last sentence of the article. Will search for something better.—eric 01:23, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You can follow the links in the footnotes in that article to some google books previews. James Carroll's House of War you can borrow from Archive. I see Melvyn Leffler mentioned but not A Preponderance of Power.—eric 01:42, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You can also borrow from Archive Bundy, M. G. (1990). Danger and survival: Choices about the bomb in the first fifty years. and Herken, G. (1980). The winning weapon: The atomic bomb in the cold war, 1945-1950.—eric 02:11, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some online sources -

Also some Google Books previews:

Happy reading! Alansplodge (talk) 12:20, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You should probably look at Richard Rhodes two-volume history of the bomb. The first volume is mostly about the development of the A-bomb in WW2 and shortly after, while the second volume is nominally about the H-bomb, but the second volume says much more about arms control efforts, so you should probably look at both. 2601:640:10A:F3C9:534B:5F1F:3590:C99C (talk) 06:03, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Northern delivery in Canada and the USA?[edit]

Is there an analogue of this ru:Северный завоз in Canada and the USA, and if so, on what scale and what sources are there? I want to supplement the article with the experience of Canada and the USA. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 09:47, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(Translation of the linked Russian Wikipedia article is here).

The only thing I could find is Why people in Canada’s remote Arctic capital are obsessed with Amazon Prime. Alansplodge (talk) 12:00, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In Canada, there was the Northern Air Stage Program, created by Canada Post and subsidized by the federal government, that ensured lower freight rates for delivery of healthy food supplies to Arctic communities. Can't find much online at a quick glance, except for this article [1], but I'm sure there's more information out there as it was intermittently talked about in the news until at least the end of the 1990s. Xuxl (talk) 14:17, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much!--Vyacheslav84 (talk) 18:36, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]