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The Independent Nuclear State - The United States, Britain And The Military Atom (Hardcover)
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The Independent Nuclear State - The United States, Britain And The Military Atom (Hardcover)
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The Independent Nuclear State: The United States, Britain and the
Military Atom is a chronological account and overview of the
40-year history of British military research, development and
production work in atomic energy. The United Kingdom's efforts in
this field have always had close links with equivalent activities
in the United States, and have often been conducted on a mutually
co-operative basis. Through its description of these secret
Anglo-American interactions, this study serves to highlight the
degree to which the public debate in Britain over nuclear weapons
has been conducted in a vacuum, as has American public
policy-making over its nuclear links with the United Kingdom. This
book contains descriptions of the technical evolution of British
nuclear weapon designs and production models, estimates of annual
output figures for fissile material and weapon types, and
indications of the nature of the weapon-testing programme. Decision
points are charted, such as the H-bomb development, and the factors
that led to existing plans being changed are identified. The
demonstrative nature of the programme until the late 1950s is
illustrated, together with the rapidity with which the stockpile
targets were met at the turn of that decade. The impact of the
agreements with the United States, both upon weapon development and
production programmes and upon stockpiling is analysed, as well as
their effects upon the nuclear submarine programme. The
consequences of the mid-1960s termination of weapon development are
discussed, as it the later decision to restart it for the Chevaline
programme. The impact of these events upon Anglo-American relations
is identified, together with the recent British attempts to move to
a closer political association with Europe. The study concludes by
evaluating the essential nature of four decades of United Kingdom
military nuclear development, and identifying the practical limits
imposed by past policies upon any attempt by a British government
to implement a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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