NUCLEAR WAR IN THE UK.

NUCLEAR WAR IN THE UK.
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ISBN-10 : 1909829161
ISBN-13 : 9781909829169
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis NUCLEAR WAR IN THE UK. by : TARAS. YOUNG

For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants, and armed forces prepare, those in power designed and published a variety of booklets, posters, and how-to guides. Most infamous among these was the Protect and Survive campaign, but just as fascinating are lesser-known materials prepared for the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation and the Royal Observer Corps, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. From terrifying images issued by central government, to local councils' sometimes amateurish survival guides, 'Nuclear War in the UK' is a look at the way Britain's authorities reacted to the Soviet nuclear threat.

London After the Bomb

London After the Bomb
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015010888165
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Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis London After the Bomb by : Owen Greene

Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989

Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989
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Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780198846994
ISBN-13 : 0198846991
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989 by : Simon Moody

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 to defend NATO territory. This is the first comprehensive account of how the British Army imagined nuclear war, and how it planned to fight it.

Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate

Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781000033335
ISBN-13 : 1000033333
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate by : Daniel Salisbury

This book constitutes an original archival history of government secrecy, public relations and the debate surrounding nuclear weapons in Britain from 1970 to 1983. The book contrasts the secrecy and near-silence of the Heath, Wilson and Callaghan governments on nuclear issues in the 1970s with the increasingly vocal case made for the possession of nuclear weapons by the first Thatcher government following a shift in approach in 1980. This shift occurred against a background of rising Cold War tensions and a growing public nuclear debate in the UK. The book seeks to contextualise and explain this transformation, considering the role of party politics, structures and personalities inside the government, and external influences: notably the role of investigative journalists and think tanks in cracking open official secrecy and demanding justification for Britain’s possession of nuclear weapons, and the peace movement in driving increasingly assertive public relations from 1980. The book draws on material from archives and interviews with key figures involved to provide an original and engaging account. It argues that this process of opening up saw significant disclosure of nuclear policy for the first time, and the most extensive public justification of the British nuclear capability to date, which has shaped public understanding of British nuclear weapons into the twenty-first century. This book will be of much interest to students of British politics, Cold War studies, nuclear politics and security studies.

Performing Nuclear Weapons

Performing Nuclear Weapons
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9783030675769
ISBN-13 : 3030675769
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Performing Nuclear Weapons by : Paul Beaumont

This book investigates the UK’s nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on the processes through which governments produce and maintain country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the UK’s nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.

The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent

The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 569
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ISBN-10 : 9781351755405
ISBN-13 : 1351755404
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent by : Matthew Jones

Volume I of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British Government’s strategy towards nuclear deterrent from 1945 to 1964. This volume, written with full access to the UK documentary record, examines the strategic nuclear policy of British governments after 1945 as they tried to build and then maintain an independent, nationally controlled strategic capability, while also attempting to forge a close nuclear relationship with the United States. This book will be of much interest to students of British politics, nuclear proliferation and international relations.

Too Close for Comfort

Too Close for Comfort
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Publisher : Chatham House Publishers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1784130141
ISBN-13 : 9781784130145
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Too Close for Comfort by : Patricia Lewis

Cases of near nuclear use due to misunderstanding demonstrate the importance of the human judgment factor in nuclear decisionmaking. This report applies a risk lens, based on factoring probability and consequence, to a set of cases of near use and instances of sloppy practices from 1962 to 2013.

Understanding the imaginary war

Understanding the imaginary war
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9781526101334
ISBN-13 : 1526101335
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding the imaginary war by : Matthew Grant

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.

After The Bomb

After The Bomb
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9780230274044
ISBN-13 : 0230274048
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis After The Bomb by : M. Grant

Civil defence was an integral part of Britain's modern history. Throughout the cold war it was a central response of the British Government to the threat of war. This book will be the first history of the preparations to fight a nuclear war taken in Britain between the end of the Second World War and 1968.

War Plan UK

War Plan UK
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 1326506129
ISBN-13 : 9781326506124
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis War Plan UK by : Duncan Campbell

War Plan UK is the result of more than five years' research into the real face of British civil defence. Duncan Campbell reveals the incredible history of how one government after another has planned to protect itself and survive. This is an authorised re-issue of the 1983 version of this book.