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This volume provides an up-to-date study of the current UK nuclear program and related issues that reflect the complexity of the Trident weapons system and the changing nature of deterrence in the 21st century. In 2016, the United Kingdom will decide on whether to go ahead and build the next generat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Futter, Andrew, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2016]
Colección:Weapons of mass destruction series (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.)
Temas:
Nuclear weapons > Great Britain.
Trident (Weapons systems)
Nuclear disarmament > Great Britain.
Trident (Systèmes d'armes)
Désarmement nucléaire > Grande-Bretagne.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Military policy
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear weapons
Great Britain > Military policy.
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Trident debate renewed / Andrew Futter
  • British nuclear strategy: history and culture
  • 70 years of British nuclear debates: a brief history / Daniel Salisbury
  • The UK nuclear deterrent: a system of systems / David Jarvis
  • UK Trident renewal: antecedents and decision-making / Kristan Stoddart
  • The silence of British nuclear culture / Jon Hogg
  • ? trident renewal: the wider context
  • The heterogeneity of UK military views on nuclear weapons / Henrietta Wilson
  • The Trident renewal decision, the UK and the NPT / Shatabhisha Shetty & Lukasz Kulesa
  • The legality and legitimacy of Trident renewal / William Walker
  • Trident and the special relationship / Heather Williams
  • Dangerous and inhumane: the implications for UK nuclear policy of international strategies to apply humanitarian law and prohibit nuclear weapons / Rebecca Johnson
  • Bairns not bombs: the Scottish anti-nuclear movement and the British nuclear state / Catherine Eschle
  • Next steps, politics and future challenges
  • Sustaining Trident: nuclear absolutism and nuclear symbolism / Nick Ritchie
  • Next steps in the UK's nuclear warhead programme: what future for the atomic weapons establishment? / Peter Burt
  • The future of political opposition to Trident / Toby Fenwick
  • Future challenges for UK nuclear deterrence / Andrew Futter.

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