Nuclear Weapons: Who’s in Charge?

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Hugh Miall

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Ever since the possibility of nuclear fission arose in the minds of the physicists of the 1930s, nuclear weapons seem to have had a momentum of their own. In charge of them, and driven by them, are the nuclear decision-makers. This book takes the reader behind the tests and deployments of bombs and missiles to reveal who takes the decisions to develop nuclear weapons and what kind of people they are. Ranging from the laboratories where 'Star Wars' weapons are being invented, to the Design Bureau where Soviet missiles are developed, to Mururoa Atoll, testing site of the French neutron bomb, to the lake-side compound in the Beijing, from which the modernisation of Chinese nuclear weapons is directed, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, where warheads for British nuclear weapons are designed, the author asks: who is in charge of nuclear weapons?

Author Biography:

HUGH MIALL is a research co-ordinator with the Oxford Research Group. He read modern history at Merton College, Oxford, and later obtained a PhD in peace and conflict studies from the University of Lancaster. Before taking up his present position he was a consultant to Earth Resources Research and co-author of 'Energy Efficient Future: Opening the Solar Option'. He gave evidence at the Sizewell Inquiry in 1984.

Release date Australia

June 8th, 1987

Author

Hugh Miall

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

1987 ed.

Illustrations

XI, 167 p.

Pages

167

Dimensions

140x216x10

ISBN-13

9780333446775

Product ID

14777850

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