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Author : Humphrey Wynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book RAF Nuclear Deterrent Forces written by Humphrey Wynn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Humphrey Wynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The RAF Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Forces written by Humphrey Wynn and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This official history, previously not available to the general public, records the events that led to the RAF handing over responsibility for British strategic nuclear deterrence to the Royal Navy.
Author : Peter Malone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100054950X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The British Nuclear Deterrent written by Peter Malone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Kingdom was the first country to undertake atomic energy research and development for military purposes. In April 1940 the British government commissioned a group of scientists to study the possibilities of manufacturing a ‘uranium bomb’ in wartime. Originally published in 1984, this book traces the development of British nuclear weapons from those early times to the present. It examines the decisions of Atlee and the MacMillan governments in sustaining the nuclear deterrent through the hydrogen bomb and the Polaris programme, and discusses in detail the decision to proceed with Trident. Throughout the narrative is set against the background of British domestic politics and Anglo-American relations. The book demonstrates why for nearly forty years British governments remained committed to an independent nuclear deterrent as the last line of defence should NATO fail.
Author : Jerry David Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The British Nuclear Deterrent and the United States written by Jerry David Francis and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Baylis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198280125
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Ambiguity and Deterrence written by John Baylis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the disagreements which existed in British political and military circles over nuclear strategy directly after World War II. Based on recently released documents, it argues that British policy in this important area was much more ambiguous than is commonly supposed.
Author : Stephen Robert Twigge
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058230065
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Planning Armageddon written by Stephen Robert Twigge and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume provides the first detailed account of Britain's Command, Control, Comunications and Intelligence infrastructure, focusing on the British-American atomic relation- ship and its implications for NATO strategy.
Author : Philip Goodall
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book My Target Was Leningrad written by Philip Goodall and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 August and 8 August 1945, the world changed forever with the release of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. In January 1947, the United States informed the British Government that they would not provide technical data for the production of nuclear weapons. It was therefore decided that Britain would produce its own bombs. In July 1944, the first operational jet aircraft, the Meteor, entered service in the RAF and the Government decided to develop jet-powered aircraft capable of dropping nuclear weapons, resulting in the development of the ‘V’ bombers: Valiant, Vulcan and Victor. As a result of the deteriorating relationship with Russia, the United States, as part of NATO, worked with the UK and co-operated in nuclear operational planning with US bomber aircraft based in the UK. Later, as a result of the development of nuclear power, submarines were fitted with nuclear weapons which resulted in the deterrent role passing from the RAF to the Royal Navy. However, the Cold War provided a unique role and responsibility for the RAF. My Target was Leningrad – V Force: Preserving our Democracy is unique in that it is a human story, not just a list of technical facts and bomber data. With many previously unpublished photographs from the author’s private collection, this is the chilling story of what really happened and how close the world came to World War III and a nuclear apocalypse. Unlike other military historians, author Philip Goodall not only flew the mighty V bombers in action, but was also tasked to drop the bomb on Leningrad.
Author : Andrew Brookes
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9780857337788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (377 download)
Download or read book RAF V-Force 1955-69 written by Andrew Brookes and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The RAF's V-Force remained Britain's nuclear deterrent up to 1969 when the strategic role was assumed by the Royal Navy with its Polaris nuclear submarines.
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780711027503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (275 download)
Download or read book V-Force written by Robert Jackson and published by Ian Allan Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of the Royal Air Force nuclear deterrent goes into greater depth than the usual study of the post-1945 RAF. Britain's independent nuclear research was carried out with great ingenuity and the three V-bombers (Victor, Valiant and Vulcan) were fine and long-serving aircraft, but the author has also recognised the broader implications of this era. The United States was reluctant to share nuclear technology in the years immediately after World War II, forcing Britain to develop its own weapons and delivery system. The development of submarine missiles also initiated a longstanding rivalry between the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Nuclear considerations were a key factor in the development of the RAF's strategy and tactics from the 1950s onwards and, in the author's insightful analysis, an important indicator of Britain's changing role in world affairs and increasing dependence on the United States.
Author : Robert H. Paterson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714647403
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Britain's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent written by Robert H. Paterson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book concludes with comparisons with France's experience with an independent strategic nuclear deterrent, and an assessment of the key strategic changes in the post-Cold War period and of how strategic geo-political changes, international aspirations regarding arms control developments and the domestic constraints of public opinion and economics might influence a decision regarding a fourth-generation nuclear deterrent. It will be of value to those in universities or military training establishments reading strategic studies, as well as others who have a professional or amateur interest in defence policy.
Author : S. Gregory
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230379109
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Command and Control in NATO written by S. Gregory and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-12-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than forty years NATO premised its defence on credible nuclear deterrence. Underwriting this deterrence was NATO's strategy and the nuclear weapons and command and control systems intended to make the strategy an operational reality. This book examines NATO's attempts between 1952 and 1990 to achieve the political and military control of nuclear weapons operations in a multinational organisation. By using case-studies of US, British, French and NATO nuclear weapons operations and empirical evidence from Cold War crises it provides an analysis of NATO's experience and offers insights for the present day.
Author : Great Britain: Ministry of Defence
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Future of the United Kingdom's Nuclear Deterrent written by Great Britain: Ministry of Defence and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this White Paper, the Government reaffirms its commitment to maintain Britain's independent nuclear capability by investing in a new generation of ballistic missile-carrying submarines and extending the life of the Trident D5 missile. However, in order to ensure the deterrent system is the minimum necessary to provide effective deterrence, there will be a further 20 per cent reduction in operationally available warheads. The Government believes this decision balances the interests of national security against its undertaking to work towards multilateral disarmament and to counter nuclear proliferation, and it is fully compatible with Britain's international legal obligations. The White Paper discusses the policy context and sets out the reasons why decisions on the future of the UK's nuclear deterrent system are needed now, as well as considering the various options and their costs, and the industrial aspects involved in building the new submarines in the UK.
Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135282730
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons written by Richard Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines British thinking about nuclear weapons in the period up to about 1970, looking at the subject through the eyes of the Royal Navy, in the belief that this can offer new insights in this field. The author argues that the Navy was always sceptical about nuclear weapons, both on practical grounds and because of wartime and pre-war experiences. He suggests that this scepticism can teach us a good deal about military technological innovation in general.
Author : Andrew Corbett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526147378
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Supreme emergency written by Andrew Corbett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Supreme emergency, an ex-Trident submarine captain considers the evolution of UK nuclear deterrence policy and the implications of a previously unacknowledged aversion to military strategies that threaten civilian casualties. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book provides a unique synthesis of the factors affecting British nuclear policy decision-making and draws parallels between government debates about reprisals for First World War zeppelin raids on London, the strategic bombing raids of the Second World War and the evolution of the UK nuclear deterrent. It concludes that among all the technical factors, an aversion to being seen to condone civilian casualties has inhibited government engagement with the public on deterrence strategy since 1915.
Author : Tony Redding
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911714619
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (117 download)
Download or read book V Bombers written by Tony Redding and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering and necessary read for all those interested in Cold War history. Much has been written about the V-bombers – the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan – but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain’s small force of subsonic bombers have retaliated following a Soviet attack? Would they have succeeded in visiting thermonuclear catastrophe on their Soviet targets? V-Bombers: Britain’s Nuclear Frontline is the first detailed account of the operational capability and credibility of Britain’s airborne nuclear deterrent during the peak years of the Cold War. This book is the product of six years of research by the author, Dr Tony Redding. It includes a great deal of fresh material on V-force weapons, war mission, targeting, vulnerabilities and tactics for attacking targets within Soviet Russia. Over 70 V-force aircrew and ground crew were interviewed and over 300 operational research reports and other official documents were reviewed. This book demonstrates how the V-bombers retained a unilateral capacity to destroy the largest cities in the Soviet Union until the handover of the strategic nuclear deterrent to the Polaris submarines in 1969. It concludes that a small force of surviving V-bombers could have unleashed the explosive power of all Allied bombs dropped on Germany in six years of war, but in the space of the first two hours of World War 3. A sobering thought and a fascinating and necessary read for all those interested in this period of history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Future of the British Nuclear Deterrent written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Moore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230251404
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality written by R. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political, military and technical aspects of Britain's nuclear weapons programme under the Macmillan government, contrasting Britain's perceived political decline with its growth in technological mastery and military nuclear capability. Important reading for anyone interested in the history and military technology of the cold war.
