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Trade Review"Grant presents 10 articles exploring the history of British statecraft during the Cold War. Contributors first discuss issues of nuclear weapons, examining British nuclear strategy, disarmament and non proliferation policy, and civil defense policy. The focus then turns to diplomacy, broadly defined, in chapters that look at British- West German relations, Anglo-French nuclear cooperation and British policy towards the European Community, and transatlantic nuclear cooperation. The final major theme of the volume is intelligence, which is examined in terms of perceived threats to national security, Soviet missile defense and the British nuclear deterrent, and British economic intelligence activities." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.
Table of ContentsForeword - Peter Hennessy; Introduction - Matthew Grant; Part One: The Bomb! 1.British nuclear strategy during the Cold War - Kristan Stoddart; 2.Disarmament and non-proliferation - Stephen Twigge; 3.Civil defence and the nuclear deterrent - Matthew Grant; Part Two: Diplomacy; 4.A coalition of 'compromise and barter' :Britain and West Germany in the Cold War 1945-75 - R. Gerald Hughes; 5.Transformation and tradition: Anglo-French nuclear co-operation and Britain's policy towards the European Community 1960-1974 - Helen Parr; 6.Transatlantic nuclear co-operation: the British perspective 1945-1991 - Melissa Pine; Part Three: Intelligence; 7.The British way in intelligence - Michael S. Goodman; 8.British intelligence and threats to British national security after the Second World War - Calder Walton; 9.British intelligence, Soviet missile defence and the British nuclear deterrent - Catherine Haddon!; 10. The British way of economic intelligence - Pete Davies; Notes on contributors.
