TY  - GEN
N2  - This book reveals the nature and level of British engagement with controversial and lethal nerve agent weapons from the end of the Second World War to Britains 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 further uncovers how public scrutiny and protest movements played a substantial and successful part in influencing policy and attitudes towards nerve agent weapons. William King is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London, UK.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-70474-2
DO  - doi
AB  - This book reveals the nature and level of British engagement with controversial and lethal nerve agent weapons from the end of the Second World War to Britains 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 further uncovers how public scrutiny and protest movements played a substantial and successful part in influencing policy and attitudes towards nerve agent weapons. William King is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London, UK.
T1  - Nerve agents in postwar Britain :deterrence, publicity and disarmament, 1945-1976 /
AU  - King, William.
CN  - UG447
ID  - 1439228
KW  - Nerve gases
KW  - Deterrence (Strategy)
KW  - Gaz neurotoxiques
KW  - Dissuasion (Stratégie)
SN  - 9783030704742
SN  - 3030704742
TI  - Nerve agents in postwar Britain :deterrence, publicity and disarmament, 1945-1976 /
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