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Table of Contents:

• Early pressures: 1954-1957
• 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.

Author/Creator:

Walker, John R., 1960-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

British nuclear weapons and the test ban 1954-73: Britain, the United States, weapons policies and nuclear testing: tensions and contradictions [by Walker, J.R.]

Subjects:

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) — History

Nuclear weapons — Government policy — Great Britain — History

Nuclear arms control — Great Britain — History

Nuclear weapons — Testing — Law and legislation — History

Great Britain — Foreign relations — United States

United States — Foreign relations — Great Britain

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

U264.5.G7 W35 2010eb

ISBNs:

9781409411130 (electronic bk.)
1409411133 (electronic bk.)
9781409411123 [Invalid]
1409411125 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

694143993

Other Control Numbers:

EBC592398 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp3500829