Britain and disarmament
Subtitle: the UK and nuclear, biological and chemical weapons arms control and programmes, 1956-1975
By: John R. Walker
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781409435808; 9781409435815
Subjects: Disarmament; Arms control; History; Government policy; Weapons of mass destruction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Britain and disarmament: weapons programmes and arms control: balancing conflicting requirements; title: The UK's offensive CW programmes: abandonment and aspirations 1956-1969; title: Inappropriately hilarious: the UK and incapacitating chemical agents; title: A tale of two riot control agents: UK attitudes to CS and the Geneva protocol and CR in warfare and law enforcement 1969-1975; title: The biological and toxin weapons convention: origins of the UK proposal to separate BW from CW 1968; title: The biological and toxin weapons convention negotiating history: March to September 1971: the key months; title: The UK and why research was dropped from the draft biological and toxin weapons convention; title: The UK nuclear weapons programme, fissile material cut-off and safeguards 1956-1973; title: UK nuclear weapons, the Atlantic Nuclear Force (ANF) and the NPT 1962-1968; title: UK nuclear weapons and the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks 1969-1973; title: Conclusions: Britain and nuclear, chemical and biological arms control and disarmament.