1st Edition
Britain and Disarmament The UK and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Arms Control and Programmes 1956-1975
By John R. Walker
Copyright 2012
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the use of poison gas during the First World War and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan at the end of the Second World War, nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) weapons have registered high on the fears of governments and individuals alike. Recognising both the particular horror of these weapons, and their potential for inflicting mass death and destruction, much effort has been expended... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction Britain and Disarmament: Weapons Programmes and Arms Control: Balancing Conflicting Requirements; Chapter 2 The UK’s Offensive CW Programmes: Abandonment and Aspirations 1956–1969; Chapter 3 1 ‘Inappropriately hilarious’ was a phrase used to describe the condition of some UK soldiers after a field trial of an incapacitating agent when they were under observation in a hospital. See TNA WO 195/16694, Applied Biology Committee: SMALL CHANGE (field trials with and incapacitant), 1968; Chapter 4 A Tale of Two Riot Control Agents: UK Attitudes to CS and the 1925 Geneva Protocol and CR in Warfare and Law Enforcement 1969–1975; Chapter 5 The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Origins of the UK Proposal to Separate BW from CW 1968; Chapter 6 The UK and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Negotiating History: March–September 1971: The Key Months; Chapter 7 The UK and Why ‘Research’ Was Dropped from the Draft Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; Chapter 8 The UK Nuclear Weapons Programme, Fissile Material Cut-off and Safeguards 1956–1973; Chapter 9 UK Nuclear Weapons, the Atlantic Nuclear Force (ANF) and the NPT 1962–1968; Chapter 10 UK Nuclear Weapons and the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks 1969–1973; Chapter 11; Conclusions: Britain and Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Arms Control and Disarmament; annex 1 Main Operative Articles only included here;
Biography
Dr John R. Walker works in the Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK.
’A meticulous, broad-ranging study of nearly 20 years of British arms control history, the book is highly recommended for anyone seeking to better understand how policies governing some of the worst kinds of weapons have developed in the United Kingdom - and where Britain has come from as it contributes to the arms control debates of the present.’ VERTIC ’What is unquestionable is that Dr. Walker has done a remarkable task of providing a detailed account of a set of complex negotiations on major - one might say, ’life or death,’ issues.’ British Politics Group Newsletter 'Walker ... is in an ideal position to analyse the relevance of past policy to current and future challenges in these fields. He is also able to traverse the academic and policy worlds and, having worked with him first-hand on the AHRC-funded project at Southampton University on which this book draws, I can testify he does so with honesty and integrity of the highest order.' British Journal for the History of Science
