The emergence of a deterrence 'habit of mind' -- The chiefs of staff, nuclear weapons, and global strategy -- From atomic weapons to thermonuclear weapons -- Forging the 'special' Anglo-American nuclear relationship -- Polaris, independence, and interdependence -- The Polaris improvement programme and chevaline -- The Polaris replacement debate under labour -- The adoption of trident -- NATO modernization plans, SDI, and the end of the Cold War -- Trident replacement/renewal: from 'new labour' to the coalition government -- Appendices: 1. British nuclear weapons, 1945-present -- 2. US nuclear weapons supplied to the UK, 1945-present -- 3. Strategic strike planning by bomber command, 1962 -- 4. Nuclear targeting (1972) -- 5. United States/United Kingdom agreements in the military nuclear field -- 6. Brief for the chief of the air staff, 1981 -- 7. Anglo-American understandings on nuclear release procedures: president-prime minister correspondence -- 8. Main committees dealing with nuclear weapons issues in the 1940s and 1950s. |