British nuclear weapons and the test ban 1954-73 : Britain, the United States, weapons policies and nuclear testing : tensions and contradictions / John R. Walker.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 2010وصف:xvi, 390 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781409411123 (hbk)
- 1409411125 (hbk)
- 9781409411130
- 1409411133
- Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History
- Nuclear arms control -- Great Britain -- History
- Nucelar weapons -- Testing -- Law and legislation -- History
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) -- History
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
- U264.5.G7 W35 2010
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | U264.5.G7 W35 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011302152 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | U264.5.G7 W35 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011302153 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Early pressures: 1954-1957 -- 1958: a decisive year -- The testing moratorium and its constraints on UK weapons, 1958-1963 -- Diplomatic pressures and the testing moratorium, 1958-1961 -- Test ban treaty verification and the role of seismology : UK efforts, 1958-1965 -- The end of the testing moratorium 1961: UK responses -- The UK and the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT): 1963 -- UK testing and future plans, 1963-1965 -- UK CTBT policy, 1965-1973 -- A static UK nuclear weapon development programme, 1966-1973.
In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. An increasingly marginal world power, successive post-war British governments felt that an independent nuclear deterrent was essential if the country was to remain at the top table of world diplomacy. Focusing on a key twenty-year period, this study explores Britain's role in efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban treaty between 1954 and 1973. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it examines the nature of defence planning, the scientific goals that nuclear tests were designed to secure, Anglo-American relationships, the efficacy of British diplomacy and its contribution to arms control and disarmament. A key theme of the study is to show how the UK managed to balance the conflicting pressures created by its determination to remain a credible nuclear power whilst wanting to pursue disarmament objectives, and how these pressures shifted over the period in question. Based on a wealth of primary sources this book opens up the largely ignored subject of the impact of arms control on the UK nuclear weapons programme. Its appraisal of the relationship between the requirements and developments of the UK nuclear weapons programme against international and domestic pressures for a test ban treaty will be of interest to anyone studying post-war British defence and foreign policy, history of science, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and international relations. It also provides important background information on current events involving nuclear proliferation and disarmament.