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The United Kingdom and Nuclear Deterrence
Series: Adelphi series
In December 2003 the British government announced that within a few years it would need to take decisions about the future of Britain's strategic nuclear deterrent. Exactly three years later, its plans were revealed in a White Paper. The existing Trident system is to be given a life-extension,...
Published February 26th 2007 by Routledge
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Britain and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1942-2002
Series: Strategy and History
Britain was the first country to come under sustained ballistic missile attack, during 1944-45. Defence against ballistic missiles has been a persistent, if highly variable, subject of political policy and technical investigation ever since. The British Second World War experience of trying to...
Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge