dc.contributor.author | Lucky, Asuelime E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-17T08:36:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-17T08:36:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lucky, A.E. 2014. Churchill’s British atomic relations with Malan’s government in South Africa, 1951-1954. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 71:136-150, Dec. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0379-9867 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13376 | |
dc.description.abstract | In 1951 Churchill assumed office for the second time as Prime Minister of
Britain and renewed the effort to sway once again a Commonwealth sentiment
on a Nationalistic DF Malan in their atomic relations. The period marked the
beginning of an increased quest for uranium residue for peaceful and military
purposes by the principal state actors in the World Wars. It is suggested that
Britain used its Commonwealth links with the Union of South Africa to
gain an edge in the atomic field for the first decade after the Second World
War, and became a gate-keeper through which the United States had to seek
authorisation. After consulting multi-archival sources in Britain, Canada and
South Africa, I argue against this assertion by Richie Ovendale. The British
Commonwealth connection was not so imperative in the late 40s and between
1951 and 1954, It was not so much a Commonwealth instinct that saw to
collaboration between Britain and South Africa, but rather Malan’s decision
to use its uranium as political leverage, particularly when global attention was
shifting to Australia as an alternative uranium supply. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University | en_US |
dc.subject | Atomic relations | en_US |
dc.subject | Britain | en_US |
dc.subject | Churchill government | en_US |
dc.subject | Commonwealth | en_US |
dc.subject | DF Malan | en_US |
dc.subject | Richie Ovendale | en_US |
dc.subject | Union of South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | United States | en_US |
dc.subject | Uranium | en_US |
dc.title | Churchill’s British atomic relations with Malan’s government in South Africa, 1951-1954. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |