The British way in cold warfare
Subtitle: intelligence, diplomacy and the bomb, 1945-1975
By: edited by Matthew Grant
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781847252296
Subjects: Intelligence service; Nuclear weapons; Government policy; Cold War; Deterrence (Strategy); Foreign relations; History
Description: Readers are given a complete picture of the way Britain fought the Cold War, moving the focus away from the now familiar crises of Suez and Cuba and onto the themes that underpinned the British war strategy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: British nuclear strategy during the Cold War / Kristan Stoddart; title: Disarmament and non-proliferation / Stephen Twigge; title: Civil defence and the nuclear deterrent, 1954-1968 : strategic imperative and political expendiency / Matthew Grant; title: A coalition of 'compromise and barter' : Britain and West Germany in the Cold War, 1945-1975 / R. Gerald Hughes; title: Transformation and tradition : Anglo-French nuclear cooperation and Britain's policy towards the European Community, 1960-1974 / Helen Parr; title: Transatlantic nuclear cooperation : the British perspective, 1945-1991 / Melissa Pine; title: The British way in intelligence / Michael S. Goodman; title: British intelligence and threats to British national security after the Second World War / Calder Walton; title: British intelligence, Soviet missile defence and the British nuclear deterrent, 1964-1970 / Catherine Haddon; title: The British way of economic intelligence during the Cold War / Pete Davies.