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The principal findings of this study are that Great Britain's
search for an independent nuclear deterrent was waged with a
purposeful dedication that wedded highly effective statecraft and
brilliant, innovative nuclear engineering to produce a strategic
nuclear deterrent that remained under her sovereign control.
Because Britain's efforts in this area were so often achieved in
the face of United States' opposition, Britain's subsequent
utilization of her deterrent capability as an instrument to secure
American support, notwithstanding that opposition, ought to be
considered an example of successful policy management. The product
of this effort has been the Anglo-American "special relationship"
in nuclear weapons. The demonstrable success of British policy
management to nurture and secure the special relationship in
nuclear weapons is confirmed by its endurance in the face of
American indifference, if not overt hostility, to its continuation.
A major contention of this inquiry, therefore, is that the
independent nature of Britain's strategic nuclear deterrent has
been the primary prerequisite for the evolution of an
interdependent, hence "special," relationship with the United
States. This relationship will endure, for it must; the physics and
metaphysics of strategic relationships in the thermonuclear age
will secure this constancy. In the meantime, Britain will play a
far greater role internationally than heretofore, just as the
special relationship binds her ever closer to the United States.
And this, after all, has always been a principal objective of
British policy.
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