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| Genre/Form: | History Military history |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Baylis; Kristan Stoddart |
| ISBN: | 9780198702023 0198702027 |
| OCLC Number: | 900506637 |
| Description: | xi, 299 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | The emergence of a deterrence 'habit of mind' -- The chiefs of staff, nuclear weapons, and global strategy -- From atomic weapons to thermonuclear weapons -- Forging the 'special' Anglo-American nuclear relationship -- Polaris, independence, and interdependence -- The Polaris improvement programme and chevaline -- The Polaris replacement debate under labour -- The adoption of trident -- NATO modernization plans, SDI, and the end of the Cold War -- Trident replacement/renewal: from 'new labour' to the coalition government -- Appendices: 1. British nuclear weapons, 1945-present -- 2. US nuclear weapons supplied to the UK, 1945-present -- 3. Strategic strike planning by bomber command, 1962 -- 4. Nuclear targeting (1972) -- 5. United States/United Kingdom agreements in the military nuclear field -- 6. Brief for the chief of the air staff, 1981 -- 7. Anglo-American understandings on nuclear release procedures: president-prime minister correspondence -- 8. Main committees dealing with nuclear weapons issues in the 1940s and 1950s. |
| Responsibility: | John Baylis and Kristan Stoddart. |
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Meticulously reconstructed from once top secret documents, this is a brilliantly analysed case-study of strategic culture, decision-making processes and bureaucratic politics. It should be on every IR or Public Policy reading list! * Prof D.B.G Heuser, Department of Politics & IR, University of Reading * Nuclear weapons policy-making runs like an irradiated thread throughout the history of Britain since 1940. There are no more skilful unearthers of that thread than John Baylis and Kristan Stoddart. * Professor Lord Peter Hennessy FBA, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London * Britain was one of the founders of the nuclear club and is still an active member. John Baylis and Kristan Stoddart provide a unique and comprehensive history of why and how the country retained its nuclear status, drawing attention to the importance of a "deterrence habit of mind". * Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, FBA, Professor of War Studies, Kings College London * Meticulously reconstructed from once top secret documents, this is a brilliantly analysed case-study of strategic culture, decision-making processes and bureaucratic politics. It should be on every IR or Public Policy reading list! * Prof D.B.G Heuser, Department of Politics & IR, University of Reading * Baylis and Stoddart, in their jointly authored book, provide a much needed update to Lawrence Freedmans classic Britain and nuclear weapons (Macmillan, 1980), filling in the most recent 35 years. * Andrew Dorman, Kings College London, Conflict, security and defence * Anyone wishing to understand the United Kingdom's seven-decades-old relationship with nuclear weapons...should start with this excellent new book by leading British scholars John Baylis and Kristan Stoddart. The British Nuclear Experience provides a fascinating and highly accessible narrative of the somewhat peculiar story of both the day-to-day dynamics and the broader evolution of nuclear thinking and policy in the United Kingdom. * Andrew Futter, H-Diplo * Read more...
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- Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History.
- Great Britain -- Military policy -- 20th century.
- Great Britain -- History, Military -- 20th century.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Military policy.
- Nuclear weapons -- Government policy.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain.
