Planning Armageddon
Britain, the United States, and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-1964 (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14527974 |
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| Authors | Ronald E Powaski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 207-209 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2019709109 |
| Language | EN |
Planning Armageddon is a fascinating and frightening history of the development of Britain's nuclear command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) capabilities during the period when the United Kingdom emerged as a nuclear power. Basing their work on the recollections of government officials and military officers in both Britain and the United States, and employing recently declassified government documents, Stephen Twigge and Len Scott describe how the British attempted to maintain an independent nuclear deterrent in the face of technological developments in both the United States and the Soviet Union that Britain could not afford to match
Art · Command and control · Control (management) · Economic history · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Government (linguistics) · Management · Nuclear power · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Soviet union · Telecommunications · Work (physics) · Engineering · History · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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