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Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
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Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
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The primary mission assigned to the British Army from the 1950s
until the end of the Cold War was deterring Soviet aggression in
Europe by demonstrating the will and capability to fight with
nuclear weapons in defence of NATO territory. This 'surreal'
mission was unlike any other in history, and raised a number of
conceptual and practical difficulties. This comprehensive study
observes how the British Army imagined nuclear war, and how it
planned to fight it. Using new archival sources, Simon J. Moody
analyses British thinking about tactical nuclear weapons, the role
of the Army within NATO strategy, the development of theories of
tactical nuclear warfare, how nuclear war was taught at the Staff
College, the role of operational research, and the evolution of the
Army's nuclear war-fighting doctrine. He argues that the British
Army possessed the intellectual capacity for organisational
adaptation, but that it displayed a cognitive dissonance about some
of the more uncomfortable realities of nuclear war.
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