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Book Synopsis Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Force and the U. S. -U. K. Special Relationship by : Emily S Merritt Usn
Download or read book Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Force and the U. S. -U. K. Special Relationship written by Emily S Merritt Usn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain established in 1940 the first national nuclear weapons program in the world, and this gave Britain credibility in articipating in the U.S.-led Manhattan Project during World War II. Despite the interruption in U.S.-U.K. nuclear cooperation in 1946-1958 owing to the McMahon Act, since 1958 the United States and the United Kingdom have worked closely in the nuclear domain. Indeed, since the 1962 Nassau Summit, the United States has sold submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and support systems to the United Kingdom. In 1980 and 1982, London chose to modernize its nuclear deterrent with Trident SLBMs. The British made a similar decision in 2006, and it may be reconfirmed in 2016 with legislation to construct a new fleet of Trident nuclear ballistic missile submarines. Britain has been motivated to remain a nuclear weapons state in order to protect its own national security interests and to contribute to the security of its NATO allies in an unpredictable international security environment.
Book Synopsis Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Force and the U.S. - U.K. Special Relationship by : U. S. Military
Download or read book Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Force and the U.S. - U.K. Special Relationship written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-21 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain established in 1940 the first national nuclear weapons program in the world, and this gave Britain credibility in participating in the U.S.-led Manhattan Project during World War II. Despite the interruption in U.S.-U.K. nuclear cooperation in 1946-1958 owing to the McMahon Act, since 1958 the United States and the United Kingdom have worked closely in the nuclear domain. Indeed, since the 1962 Nassau Summit, the United States has sold submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and support systems to the United Kingdom. In 1980 and 1982, London chose to modernize its nuclear deterrent with Trident SLBMs. The British made a similar decision in 2006, and it may be reconfirmed in 2016 with legislation to construct a new fleet of Trident nuclear ballistic missile submarines. Britain has been motivated to remain a nuclear weapons state in order to protect its own national security interests and to contribute to the security of its NATO allies in an unpredictable international security environment. CHAPTER I - BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR DETERRENT FORCE AND THE U.S.-U.K. SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP * A. MAJOR RESEARCH QUESTION * B. IMPORTANCE * C. PROBLEMS AND HYPOTHESES * D. LITERATURE REVIEW * E. METHODS AND SOURCES * F. THESIS OVERVIEW * CHAPTER II - BRITAIN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB: BECOMING A NUCLEAR POWER * CHAPTER III - PLATFORM WORTHY OF THE ULTIMATE WEAPON: BRITAIN'S JOURNEY TOWARD A CREDIBLE DETERRENT . * CHAPTER IV - MATURATION OF DETERRENCE POLICY: BRITAIN'S TRANSITION FROM POLARIS TO TRIDENT * CHAPTER V - INSURANCE: BRITAIN'S RATIONALE FOR NUCLEAR DETERRENCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Book Synopsis U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation After 50 Years by : Jenifer Mackby
Download or read book U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation After 50 Years written by Jenifer Mackby and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Britain and the United States commemorate five decades of the special nuclear relationship embodied in the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA), two leading research institutes--one on either side of the Atlantic--have collaborated to examine that history. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, enlisted senior officials, scientists, academics, and members of industry who have been involved in the implementation of the MDA over the years. The contributors were asked to recount how the U.S.-UK nuclear relationship flourished despite such obstacles as the halt in the scientific cooperation that had spurred the Manhattan Project; the Suez crisis; and sharp disagreements over scientific, political, and technical issues. They were also asked to look to the future of this unparalleled transatlantic relationship. Abstracts from 36 oral histories (taken with, among others, Des Browne, UK secretary of state for defence; James Schlesinger, former U.S. secretary of energy; and Harold Brown, former U.S. secretary of defense) add to the historical dimension of this work. The resulting collection of histories, analyses, and anecdotes provides valuable reading for an understanding of how the two nations were drawn together by a common threat during a turbulent era, as well as how they will face future challenges in a radically changed security environment. -- Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship by : Ian Clark
Download or read book Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship written by Ian Clark and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship by : Ian Clark
Download or read book Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship written by Ian Clark and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the full and inside story of Anglo-American nuclear relations from 1957 to 1962. Based on a detailed analysis of newly-declassified documents, this book examines such critical issues as British nuclear targeting of the Soviet Union and the cancellation of the Blue Streak missile.
Book Synopsis Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship by : Ian Clark
Download or read book Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship written by Ian Clark and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1994 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full inside story The full and fascinating inside story of Anglo-American nuclear relations from 1957 to 1962 is told for the first time in this book. This period saw the creation of a close and exclusive relationship of nuclear collaboration between Britain and the United States, with an agreement on atomicco-operation, the establishment of the facilities for US nuclear submarines in the UK, and the sale of US missiles, including Thor and Polaris for the British strategic submarine force. Revelations from formerly top secret documents Ian Clark's detailed analysis of newly declassified official documents reveals that, while special, the Anglo-American nuclear partnership was not without tension and rivalry. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sought to combine interdependence--which reduced costs--with national policies on nuclearstrategy, NATO, nuclear co-operation with France, and nuclear testing; the result was conflict with US administrations. Dr Clark examines such critical issues as British nuclear targeting of the Soviet Union and co-ordination with US nuclear war plans, cancellation of the Blue Streak missile, the bargain over Skybolt and the Holy Loch base, the diplomacy of the Skybolt crisis in 1962, and British ambitions forPolaris. The frank revelations contained in the formerly top secret British and American documents from the period enable him to offer fundamentally new and sometimes controversial interpretations of events in this dramatic period.
Book Synopsis The United Kingdom and the Future of Nuclear Weapons by : Andrew Futter
Download or read book The United Kingdom and the Future of Nuclear Weapons written by Andrew Futter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1969, the United Kingdom always has always had one submarine armed with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles underwater, undetected, in constant communication, ready at a set notice to fire at targets anywhere in the world. This is part of its Trident Programme, which includes the development, procurement, and operation of the current generation of British nuclear weapons, as well as the means to deliver them. Operated by the Royal Navy and based at Clyde Naval Base on Scotland’s west coast, it is the most expensive and most powerful capability of the British military forces. In 2016, the United Kingdom had to decide on whether to go ahead and build the next generation of nuclear submarines that will allow the UK to remain in the nuclear business well into the second half of this century. The book presents the political, cultural, technical, and strategic aspects of Trident to provide a thoughtful overview of the UK’s complex relationship with nuclear weapons. The authors, both scholars and practitioners, bring together diverse perspectives on the issue, discussing the importance of UK nuclear history as well as the political, legal, and diplomatic aspects of UK nuclear weapons—internationally and domestically. Also addressed are the new technical, military, and strategic challenges to the UK nuclear thinking and strategy.
Book Synopsis A Nuclear Weapons-Free World? by : Nick Ritchie
Download or read book A Nuclear Weapons-Free World? written by Nick Ritchie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Obama and the UK Labour and Coalition governments have all backed the renewed momentum for serious progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons, whilst the UK finds itself embarked on a controversial and expensive programme to renew its Trident nuclear weapons system. What does the UK process tell about the prospects for disarmament?
Book Synopsis Physics and Metaphysics of Deterrence: the British Approach by : Myron Greenberg
Download or read book Physics and Metaphysics of Deterrence: the British Approach written by Myron Greenberg and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal findings of this study are that Great Britain's search for an independent nuclear deterrent was waged with a purposeful dedication that wedded highly effective statecraft and brilliant, innovative nuclear engineering to produce a strategic nuclear deterrent that remained under her sovereign control. Because Britain's efforts in this area were so often achieved in the face of United States' opposition, Britain's subsequent utilization of her deterrent capability as an instrument to secure American support, notwithstanding that opposition, ought to be considered an example of successful policy management. The product of this effort has been the Anglo-American "special relationship" in nuclear weapons. The demonstrable success of British policy management to nurture and secure the special relationship in nuclear weapons is confirmed by its endurance in the face of American indifference, if not overt hostility, to its continuation. A major contention of this inquiry, therefore, is that the independent nature of Britain's strategic nuclear deterrent has been the primary prerequisite for the evolution of an interdependent, hence "special," relationship with the United States. This relationship will endure, for it must; the physics and metaphysics of strategic relationships in the thermonuclear age will secure this constancy. In the meantime, Britain will play a far greater role internationally than heretofore, just as the special relationship binds her ever closer to the United States. And this, after all, has always been a principal objective of British policy.
Book Synopsis Britain’s Nuclear Arms Control Policy in the Context of Anglo-American Relations, 1957–68 by : J.P.G. Freeman
Download or read book Britain’s Nuclear Arms Control Policy in the Context of Anglo-American Relations, 1957–68 written by J.P.G. Freeman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Nuclear Deterrent After the Cold War by : Nicholas K. J. Witney
Download or read book The British Nuclear Deterrent After the Cold War written by Nicholas K. J. Witney and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trident nuclear-deterrent program is one of the United Kingdom's largest-ever military acquisitions. Planned and initiated during the Cold War, it is now coming to fruition at a time when the most obvious justification for it--the Soviet threat to Western Europe--has disappeared. With the money largely spent or committed, Britain's continuance as a nuclear-weapon state until well into the twenty-first century seems certain. But with what point and purpose? This report examines the history, the underlying issues, the policy options, and the risks related to redefining a rationale for Britain's nuclear-deterrence program. The author reviews the role the United States has played in the development of Britain's nuclear policy and discusses how a new rationale might affect U.S.-U.K. relationships.
Book Synopsis Sharing Nuclear Secrets by : John Baylis
Download or read book Sharing Nuclear Secrets written by John Baylis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear alliances are high stakes partnerships with the potential to enhance security, goodwill, scientific and technical innovation, and economic well-being; or, they risk a state's very existence, generate social and political unrest, and fracture frameworks for international cooperation and jeopardize global reputations. Now entering its eighth decade, the Anglo-American nuclear alliance is the oldest and most complex in the world. Sharing Nuclear Secrets is the first comprehensive single-volume study of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship, illuminating both its fragility and durability. It has waxed and waned based on the preferences of presidents and prime ministers, weathered war scares, overcome isolationist impulses and imperial decline, persisted despite public antipathy, and has survived and been strengthened by scientific rivalries. Trust and ambiguity are entangled at the core of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship. The interplay between trust and ambiguity has influenced the way the nuclear partnership has been institutionalized at bureaucratic and technical levels, but also the ways in which political actors and private citizens have maintained the relationship through periods of crisis, moments of triumph, and through decades of cultural reckoning with nuclear weapons. From the days of the Manhattan Project, through the crisis of Suez and criticism of Dr. Strangelove, to the end of the Cold War, and into present day circumstances brought about by the JCPOA, AUKUS, and Russian nuclear threats over Ukraine, Sharing Nuclear Secrets reveals that ambiguity is key to keeping the balance between sentiment and interests and the corresponding equilibrium between trust and mistrust in the special relationship.
Book Synopsis Dependence and Deterrence by : George Michael Dillon
Download or read book Dependence and Deterrence written by George Michael Dillon and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Security Policy by : Stuart Croft
Download or read book British Security Policy written by Stuart Croft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1991, examines Britain’s defence and foreign policy of the 1980s , and explores a variety of alternative roles for Britain in the radically changed circumstances of the 1990s. The authors analyse the full range of major British security issues and developments, including the use of force and the role of conventional forces, the significance of the Anglo-American special relationship, relations with Europe, the Third World and the Soviet Union, and the unique problem of Northern Ireland. They particularly address the question of whether international policy in ‘the Thatcher years’ has marked a decisive break with earlier post-war policy or has rather been marked by shifts of emphasis within an essentially stable framework.
Book Synopsis Ambiguity and Deterrence by : John Baylis
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.
Book Synopsis Cabinets and the Bomb by : Peter Hennessy
Download or read book Cabinets and the Bomb written by Peter Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cabinets and the Bomb publishes declassified Cabinet and Cabinet Committee papers that reveal the private debates between prime ministers, senior ministers, civil servants, scientists and intelligence analysts as they made decisions about Britain's nuclear weapons"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Churchill Complex by : Ian Buruma
Download or read book The Churchill Complex written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the "special relationship" between England and America which has done so much to shape the world, from World War 2 to Brexit, through the lens of the fateful bonds between President and Prime Minister"--
