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Book SynopsisIndependence and Deterrence , commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, continues the story of Britain's atomic project begun in Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945 , and covers the years from 1945 to the first British bomb test at the end of 1952.
Table of ContentsList of Plates Preface List of Abbreviations A Note on Documentation PART 1: AUGUST 1945: RETROSPECT AND AGENDA Appendix I: Statements by the Prime Minister and Mr Churchill on the Atomic Bomb, 6 August 1945 PART 2: LABOUR'S MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT Ministers and their Advisory Committees Defence and Production Departmental Organisation Legal and Democratic Control Appendix 2: Diagram of Committees PART 3: EXTERNAL POLICY: BRIEF HOPE OF INTERDEPENDENCE Appendix 3: Letter from Mr Attlee to President Truman, 25 September 1945 Appendix 4: Washington Declaration, 15 November 1945 Appendix 5: 'Groves-Anderson' Memorandum, 16 November 1945 PART 4: EXTERNAL POLICY: HOPES AND DUPES International Control Anglo-American Collaboration Appendix 6: Telegram from Mr Attlee to President Truman, 16 April 1946 Appendix 7: Telegram from Mr Attlee to President Truman, 6 June 1946 PART 5: EXTERNAL POLICY: THE COMMONWEALTH AND EUROPE Canada The Rest of the Commonwealth Europe PART 6: DETERRENCE Programme and Purpose The Decision to Make a Bomb Mainly Military A Hope for Nuclear Power Appendix 8: Atomic Energy: An Immediate Policy for Great Britain (P. M. S. Blackett) PART 7: DETERRENCE RECALCULATED The Size and Shape of the Programme Questions of Priority Towards Nuclear Power PART 8: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MODUS VIVENDI Appendix 9: The Modus Vivendi Annex 1: Allocations Annex 2: Areas of Co-operation between Members of the British Commonwealth Annex 3: Technical Co-operation PART 9: INDEPENDENCE RECONSIDERED I New Hope of Anglo-American Integration The Doldrums Again The Use of the Bomb PART 10: INDEPENDENCE RECONSIDERED II Canada The Rest of the Commonwealth, and Europe PART 11: THE AREA OF INTERDEPENDENCE: URANIUM The Indispensable Element Combined Operations The Pattern of Supply and Demand Securing Present Supplies Securing Future Supplies Conclusions Appendix 10: Declaration of Trust, 13 June 1944 Appendix 11: Memorandum of Understanding with Belgium, 13 July 1951 Appendix 12: Joint Communique and Annex re American, Belgian and British Understandings in the Atomic Energy Field, 13 July 1951 Appendix 13: Table 1: Estimated Uranium Requirements, Deliveries and Allocations, 1946-52 Table 2: Belgian Congo Uranium Deliveries: Forecast and Actual PART 12: 'WINSTON IS BACK' - AND CHERWELL Unfinished Business Towards a New Organisation Towards a New Programme Appendix 14: Technical Note Appendix 15: Chronology of Events: April 1945-October 1952 References Index
