Format:
Online-Ressource (407 p.)
ISBN:
9781409411123
Content:
Focusing on a key twenty year period, this study explores Britain's role in efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban treaty between 1954 and 1973. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it examines the nature of defence planning, Anglo-American relationships, the efficacy of British diplomacy and UK contributions to arms control and disarmament. The appraisal of the relationship between the requirements and developments of the UK nuclear weapons programme against the countervailing international and domestic pressures for a test ban treaty will be of interest to anyone studying post-war Bri
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Chronology of UK Nuclear Tests; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Early Pressures: 1954-1958; 3 1958: A Decisive Year; 4 The Testing Moratorium; 5 Diplomatic Pressures; 6 Test-Ban Treaty Verification; 7 The End of the Testing Moratorium 1961; 8 The UK and the Partial Test-Ban Treaty; 9 UK Testing and Future Plans 1963-1965; 10 UK CTBT Policy 1965-1973; 11 A Static UK Nuclear Weapon Development Programme; 12 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409411130
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409411123
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954-1973 : Britain, the United States, Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing; Tensions and Contradictions
Language:
English
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