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Nerve agents in postwar Britain : deterrence, publicity and disarmament, 1945-1976 / William King.

9783030704742 (electronic bk.)
3030704742 (electronic bk.)
9783030704735
3030704734

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

©2021

English

1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-70474-2 doi

UG447 .K56 2021eb

623.4592094109045

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.

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