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Nerve Agents in Postwar Britain

Deterrence, Publicity and Disarmament, 1945-1976

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

This book will reveal the nature and level of British engagement with controversial and lethal nerve agent weapons from the end of the Second World War to Britain’s submission of a draft Chemical Weapons Convention. At the very heart of this highly secretive aspect of British defence policy were fundamental questions over whether Britain should acquire nerve agent weapons for potential first-use against the Soviet Union, retain them purely for their deterrence value, or drive for either unilateral or international chemical weapons disarmament. These considerations and concerns over nerve agent weapons were not limited to low-level defence committees, nor were they consigned to the periphery, but featured prominently at the highest levels of the British government and defence planning. Importantly, and despite stringent secrecy, the book will further uncover how public scrutiny and protest movements played a substantial and successful part in influencing policy and attitudes towards nerve agent weapons.  weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-70473-5 / 978-3030704735 / 9783030704735

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2021

Seiten: 290

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): William King

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