Title Britain, Germany, and western nuclear strategy / Christoph Bluth

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) Series Nuclear history program ; 3 Nuclear history program (Series) ; 3. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Creating the Western Alliance: Britain and Germany after World War II -- 3. Nuclear Sharing and the MLF Controversy -- 4. Britain, Germany, and the Origins of Flexible Response -- 5. Nuclear Weapons Policy in the Context of Detente and Arms Control -- 6. The Nuclear Planning Group: British-German Co-operation -- 7. The Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Forces -- 8. Facing the Nuclear Debates in the 1980s -- 9. Conclusion: British-German Relations in a New Era Summary This book gives a comprehensive account of post-war British and German policies towards nuclear weapons and how these interacted in the context of alliance strategy. In this fascinating explanation of an important, but previously unresearched topic, the author gives a detailed account of major episodes in the evolution of the alliance and its doctrine - such as the MLF debate, the origins of flexible response, theatre modernization programmes - and demonstrates how British and German interests impinged upon these episodes. On occasion, these interests converged; at others, they diverged and Britain and Germany took on the role of protagonists. In all of this, one of the less well-known nuclear relationships within the alliance comes vividly into focus. The book tells this part of the alliance's story for the first time, and, in the accounts of the development of German strategy, brings a refreshingly new perspective to the predominant Anglo-American interpretations Analysis Nuclear weapons Policies Of Government Great Britain Germany Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-315) and index Subject Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Europe Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Great Britain Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Germany Military relations Nuclear weapons -- Government policy Kernwaffe Rüstungspolitik Militärpolitik Atomstrategie Kernwapens. Strategie. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Military relations -- Germany Germany -- Military relations -- Great Britain Subject Europe Germany Great Britain Großbritannien Westliche Welt Deutschland Form Electronic book

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