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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. THE STAGE IS SET: THE REDISCOVERY OF ASIA -- 1. The Domestic and Foreign Contexts of the United States' Southeast Asian Policy, 1948-1949 -- PART II.THE PROBLEMS UNFOLD, 1948-1949 -- 2. Japan: The New Urgency of Reconstruction -- 3. Great Britain and the Dollar Gap: The Malayan Link -- 4. The United States, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Postwar Southeast Asia -- 5. Shifts in United States Policy toward the Far East and the World, Autumn 1949 -- PART III. THE SOLUTIONS AND THEIR AFTERMATH, 1949-1950 AND BEYOND -- 6. The Reconstruction of Japan: The Southeast Asia Connection -- 7. The Reconstruction of Great Britain: Triangular Trade and the Limits of American Commitment -- 8. The Reconstruction of Western Europe and the Beginning of United States Aid to Southeast Asia -- 9. The Korean Intervention and After -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The world's atom -- Great Britain : refugees, air power, and the possibility of the bomb -- Japan and Germany : paths not taken -- The United States I : imagining and building the bomb -- The United States II : using the bomb -- Japan : the atomic bombs and war's end -- The Soviet Union : the bomb and the Cold War -- The world's bomb -- Epilogue : nightmares and hopes