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Losing an Empire and Finding a Role: Britain, the USA, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1964--70 (2012)

Stoddart, Kristan (Author)

Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2012
Language: English

ISBN: 9780230300880

Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xv + 327 pp.

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Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons 20th century, late United States Great Britain North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

In this book, Kristan Stoddartrevises several public misconceptions regarding Britain, the United States andNATO in the nuclear weapons field. Based on the latest declassified evidence collected both in the UKand the USA, Stoddart shows that despite losing its empire Britain was finding a role -- a role based on the defence of the NATO area at the expense of large scale extra-European commitments. Its primary method of achieving this was through nuclear weapons with an upgraded capability in Polaris. This story takes in a vast geographical scope involving some of the key actors in world politics at the time including Prime Minister Harold Wilson, US President Lyndon Johnson and French President Charles de Gaulle, with the tensions of that triangular relationship at the heart of Britain's renewed and refocused nuclear empire.

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Review Lawrence, Mark Atwood (2013) Review of "Losing an Empire and Finding a Role: Britain, the USA, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1964--70". American Historical Review (pp. 825-825). unapi

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