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Sixty years of nuclear history : Britain's hidden agenda

Title
Sixty years of nuclear history : Britain's hidden agenda / Fred Roberts.
Author
Roberts, F. (Fred), 1921-
Publication
Charlbury : Jon Carpenter, 1999.

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Description
xii, 196 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
60 years of nuclear history
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Nuclear industry > Great Britain > History
  • Defense information, Classified > Great Britain
  • Nuclear weapons industry > Great Britain > History
  • Defense information, Classified
  • Nuclear industry
  • Nuclear weapons industry
  • Kernenergie
  • Kernwapens
  • Industrie nucléaire > Grande-Bretagne
  • Great Britain > History > 20th century
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-185) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Britain and nuclear weapons: the early years. 1. Atomic science to 1939. 2. MAUD and the Manhattan Project. 3. Hiroshima. 4. Attlee's secret nuclear bomb project. 5. The UN Atomic Energy Commission, the McMahon Act and the Cold War. 6. The rush for Britain's nuclear bomb. 7. The moment of hope ... and after. 8. Growth in public concern over nuclear weapons. 9. Accidents with nuclear weapons. 10. The Windscale pile fire of 1957 -- Pt. 2. The history of nuclear power and reprocessing. 11. Calder Hall and the Magnox Stations. 12. The Mutual Defence Agreement. 13. The AGR: successor to Magnox. 14. Fast breeder: the never-never reactor. 15. Diversification and reorganisation of the UKAEA. 16. It all started with uranium ore. 17. Reprocessing problems, THORP, and the Windscale strike. 18. Nuclear power controversies in the seventies. 19. The Sizewell Inquiry. 20. Privatisation and nuclear power -- Pt. 3. Britain's continued involvement with nuclear weapons. 21. Attempts to control nuclear weapons. 22. The deployment of strategic nuclear weapons. 23. The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in crises. 24. The Cold War ends: What price strategic weapons? -- Pt. 4. The nuclear legacy. 25. The long-term costs of the nuclear age.
ISBN
  • 1897766483
  • 9781897766484
LCCN
00710852
OCLC
  • ocm40753528
  • 40753528
  • SCSB-1254746
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library