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Losing an empire and finding a roleBritain, the USA, NATO, and nuclear weapons, 1964-70 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Losing an empire and finding a roleKristan Stoddart.
Reminder of title:	Britain, the USA, NATO, and nuclear weapons, 1964-70 /
Author:	Stoddart, Kristan.
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012.
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Nuclear weaponsGovernment policy20th century.Great Britain
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230369252
ISBN:	9780230369252 (electronic bk.)

Losing an empire and finding a roleBritain, the USA, NATO, and nuclear weapons, 1964-70 /
Stoddart, Kristan.

Losing an empire and finding a roleBritain, the USA, NATO, and nuclear weapons, 1964-70 /[electronic resource] :Kristan Stoddart. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource.

List of Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Labour Government: The Inheritance of Polaris and Anglo-US Nuclear Relations, 1964-1966 -- The Question of Polaris and UK/US Responses to Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missiles, 1964-1966 -- Britain, the United States and the Reform of NATO Strategy, 1964-1966 -- Britain, America and Allied Tactical Nuclear Weapons Planning, 1964-1966 -- The Second Wilson Government and the Maintenance of Polaris, 1966-1970 -- ABM Systems and Arms Control, 1966-1970 -- NATO and Flexible Response, 1966-1970 -- Britain, America and Allied Tactical Nuclear Operations, 1966-1970 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Table: British Nuclear Ordnance 1964-1970 -- Index --.

In this book, Kristan Stoddartrevises several public misconceptions regarding Britain, the United States andNATO in the nuclear weapons field. Based on the latest declassified evidence collected both in the UKand the USA, Stoddart shows that despite losing its empire Britain was finding a role b6 s a role based on the defence of the NATO area at the expense of large scale extra-European commitments. Its primary method of achieving this was through nuclear weapons with an upgraded capability in Polaris. This story takes in a vast geographical scope involving some of the key actors in world politics at the time including Prime Minister Harold Wilson, US President Lyndon Johnson and French President Charles de Gaulle, with the tensions of that triangular relationship at the heart of Britain's renewed and refocused nuclear empire.

ISBN: 9780230369252 (electronic bk.)

Source: 509272Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Corporate Names:

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LC Class. No.: U264.5.G7 / S76 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 355.02/1709182109046

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