Richard Moore

The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons

Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 268 Seiten

ISBN 0714651958

EAN 9780714651958

Veröffentlicht September 2001

Verlag/Hersteller Routledge

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Beschreibung

This work examines British thinking about nuclear weapons in the period up to about 1970, looking at the subject through the eyes of the Royal Navy, in the belief that this can offer new insights in this field. The author argues that the Navy was always sceptical about nuclear weapons, both on practical grounds and because of wartime and pre-war experiences. He suggests that this scepticism can teach us a good deal about military technological innovation in general.