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  • 15 - Australia's World of the Seventies

  • from Part Four - The Seventies: Australia’s Options
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, Gordon Greenwood, University of Queensland, Norman Harper, University of Melbourne
  • Book:
    Australia in World Affairs 1966–1970
    Published online:
    29 March 2024, pp 449-462

  • Summary

    Ten years ago, in 1963, de Gaulle had just succeeded in preventing Macmillan’s Britain from joining the EEC, in disregard both of the other members and of the bureaucracy of that organization. Macmillan himself had succeeded with Kennedy at Nassau in contracting for Polaris missiles with which to arm the United Kingdom’s own nuclear submarines. Kennedy’s alleged laurels of the Cuban missile crisis were still fresh, the three thermonuclear powers were negotiating a significant measure of arms control, and a brief era had begun in which it was sensible to regard the United States as the one super power.