John R. Walker

British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954-1973 (eBook, ePUB)

Britain, the United States, Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on a key twenty year period, this study explores Britain's role in efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban treaty between 1954 and 1973. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it examines the nature of defence planning, Anglo-American relationships, the efficacy of British diplomacy and UK contributions to arms control and disarmament. The appraisal of the relationship between the requirements and developments of the UK nuclear weapons programme against the countervailing international and domestic pressures for a test ban treaty will be of interest to anyone studying post-war British defence and foreign policy, history of science, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and international relations, or who is looking for background information on current events involving nuclear proliferation and disarmament.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317171690
• Artikelnr.: 45099624

Autorenporträt

Dr John Walker works in the Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Chronology
Early pressures: 1954-1958
1958: a decisive year
The testing moratorium and its constraints on UK weapons: 1958-1963
Diplomatic pressures and the testing moratorium: 1958-1961
Test-Ban Treaty verification and the role of seismology: UK efforts 1958-1965 The end of the testing moratorium 1961: UK responses
The UK and the Partial Test-Ban Treaty (PTBT): 1963
UK testing and future plans 1963-1965
UK CTBT policy 1965-1973
A static UK nuclear weapon development programme 1966-1973
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.