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  • Nuclear illusion, nuclear reality[electronic resource] :Britain,the United States and nuclear weapons, 1958-64 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 358/.3982094109046
    書名/作者: Nuclear illusion, nuclear reality : Britain,the United States and nuclear weapons, 1958-64 // Richard Moore.
    作者: Moore, Richard,
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
    面頁冊數: xv, 332 p. : : ill., maps
    標題: Nuclear weapons - History. - Great Britain
    標題: Great Britain - Fiction.
    標題: United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
    ISBN: 9780230251403
    ISBN: 0230251404
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Policy Making 1958-61 -- Policy Execution 1958-61 -- Policy Making 1961-64 -- Policy Execution 1961-64.
    摘要、提要註: This new history, based on extensive archive research, weaves together the political, military and technical histories of Britain's nuclearweapons programme under the Conservative governments of Harold Macmillan and Alex Douglas-Home. It contrasts Britain's perceived political decline and reliance on the United States with growth in available military nuclear capability. In summer 1958, around 50 hand-built atomic bombs were available in the UK, and just one fully successful British two-stage megaton thermonuclear device had been tested; by 1964, despite setbacks, Britain had hundreds of well engineered nuclear weapons, a well exercised low-level bomber force, and advanced new warheadand weapons programmes underway. The book also presents new evidence and analysis on key political events of the period, including the Blue Streak cancellation and the Skybolt crisis. It should be read by anyone interested inthe history and military technology of the cold war.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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