1st Edition

The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970

By Matthew Jones Copyright 2017
582 Pages
by Routledge

582 Pages
by Routledge

582 Pages
by Routledge

Volume II of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government’s strategic nuclear policy from 1964 to 1970. Written with full access to the UK documentary record, Volume II examines the controversies that developed over nuclear policy following the arrival in office of a Labour government led by Harold... Read more

Preface

1. Labour in power: The Atlantic Nuclear Force and the Polaris programme, October 1964 – January 1965

2. Nuclear testing, the future of the MDA, and the defence review, January – October 1965

3. The demise of the ANF proposals and the end of the nuclear sharing debate, November 1965 – July 1966

4. A nuclear weapons programme at the crossroads, January - September 1966

5. A new context for nuclear policy, October 1966-February 1967

6. ‘Shades of Skybolt,’, February-May 1967

7. ‘To destroy what ashes?’ May-July 1967

8. Polaris in jeopardy, July – November 1967

9. Polaris reprieved and the launch of a pilot study, November 1967 – January 1968

10. The Press Gang at work and the birth of ‘Super Antelope’, January – June 1968

11. The Kings Norton report and its aftermath, July-December 1968

12. The revival of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship, and the approach of SALT, January-October 1969

13. A matter of timing, October 1969 – June 1970

Postscript: The independent deterrent and the coming of Polaris

Biography

Matthew Jones is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and author of, amongst other books, After Hiroshima: The United States, Race, and Nuclear Weapons in Asia, 1945–1965 (2010).