This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of
nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945-1991) and contributes to
a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear
choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of
post-war Britain. In the years after 1945, the British government
mobilised money, scientific knowledge, people and
military-industrial capacity to create both an independent nuclear
deterrent and the generation of electricity through nuclear
reactors. This expensive and vast 'technopolitical' project, mostly
top-secret and run by small sub-committees within government, was
central to broader Cold War strategy and policy. Recent attempts to
map the resulting social and cultural history of these
military-industrial policy decisions suggest that nuclear
mobilisation had far-reaching consequences for British life. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Contemporary British History.
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