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The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent - Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970 (Paperback)
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The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent - Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970 (Paperback)
Series: Government Official History Series
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Volume II of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear
Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the
British government's strategic nuclear policy from 1964 to 1970.
Written with full access to the UK documentary record, Volume II
examines the controversies that developed over nuclear policy
following the arrival in office of a Labour government led by
Harold Wilson in October 1964 that openly questioned the
independence of the deterrent. Having decided to preserve the
Polaris programme, Labour ministers were nevertheless committed not
to develop another generation of nuclear weapons beyond those in
the pipeline, placing major doubts over the long-term future of the
nuclear programme and collaboration with the United States. Defence
planners also became increasingly concerned that the deployment of
Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences around Moscow
threatened to undermine the ability of Polaris to fulfil its role
as a national strategic nuclear deterrent. During 1967, under heavy
pressures to control defence spending, a protracted debate was
conducted within Whitehall over the future of Polaris and how to
respond to the evolving ABM challenge. The volume concludes with
Labour's defeat at the general election of June 1970, by which time
the Royal Navy had assumed the nuclear deterrent role from the RAF,
and plans had already been formulated for a UK project to improve
Polaris which could both ensure its continuing credibility and
rejuvenate the Anglo-American nuclear relationship. This book will
be of much interest to students of British politics, Cold War
history, nuclear proliferation and international relations.
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