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British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954-1973 - Britain, the United States, Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions (Paperback)
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British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954-1973 - Britain, the United States, Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions (Paperback)
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In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an
Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more
apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. An increasingly
marginal world power, successive post-war British governments felt
that an independent nuclear deterrent was essential if the country
was to remain at the top table of world diplomacy. 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, the scientific goals that nuclear tests
were designed to secure, Anglo-American relationships, the efficacy
of British diplomacy and its contribution to arms control and
disarmament. A key theme of the study is to show how the UK managed
to balance the conflicting pressures created by its determination
to remain a credible nuclear power whilst wanting to pursue
disarmament objectives, and how these pressures shifted over the
period in question. Based on a wealth of primary sources this book
opens up the largely ignored subject of the impact of arms control
on the UK nuclear weapons programme. Its appraisal of the
relationship between the requirements and developments of the UK
nuclear weapons programme against international and domestic
pressures for a test ban treaty will be of interest to anyone
studying post-war British defence and foreign policy, history of
science, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and
international relations. It also provides important background
information on current events involving nuclear proliferation and
disarmament.
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