‘A real bell ringer in international politics’: Frank Aiken and the origins of Ireland’s nuclear non-proliferation initiative at the United Nations, 1957-58

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dc.contributor.authorO'Driscoll, Mervynen
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-08T10:54:55Z
dc.date.available2025-10-08T10:54:55Z
dc.date.issued2025-09-15
dc.description.abstractIn November 1958, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations (hereafter UN), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., acknowledged that the Irish Minister of External Affairs, Frank Aiken, had proposed an idea with ‘great appeal’ that the United States and its allies would struggle to oppose publicly. He cautioned that this should not be underestimated. Cabot Lodge was perceptive. Indeed, most histories and analyses of nuclear non-proliferation credit Ireland with urging the United Nations General Assembly (hereafter UNGA) to pass resolutions in 1959, 1960 and 1961 and inspiring the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (hereafter NPT) of 1968.en
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dc.identifier.citationO'Driscoll, M. (2025) '‘A real bell ringer in international politics’: Frank Aiken and the origins of Ireland’s nuclear non-proliferation initiative at the United Nations, 1957-58', Cold War History. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2025.2494201en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14682745.2025.2494201en
dc.identifier.issn1468-2745en
dc.identifier.issn1743-7962en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCold War Historyen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17987
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.ispartofCold War Historyen
dc.rights© 2025, the Author. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this articlehas been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.en
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dc.subjectFrank Aikenen
dc.subjectNuclear non-proliferationen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectUnited Nationsen
dc.subject1957-58en
dc.subject~History - Journal Articles~en
dc.title‘A real bell ringer in international politics’: Frank Aiken and the origins of Ireland’s nuclear non-proliferation initiative at the United Nations, 1957-58en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
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