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The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: Volume I: From the V-Bomber Era to the Arrival of Polaris, 1945-1964 (Taylor & Francis, 2017). Jones, Matthew. The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970 (Taylor & Francis, 2017). Salisbury, Daniel.
It assumed a conventional war in Europe lasting two to three days, during which the UK would be attacked with conventional weapons, then a limited nuclear exchange, with 54 nuclear warheads used against military targets in the UK. 250,000 people protested against the exercise and 24 councils refused to participate.
In 1952, the United Kingdom was the third country to develop and test nuclear weapons, after the United States and Soviet Union. [1] and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. [2] The UK initiated a nuclear weapons programme, codenamed Tube Alloys, during the Second World War. [3]
Map of nuclear-armed states of the world NPT -designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States) Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan) Other states presumed to have nuclear weapons (Israel) NATO or CSTO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Belarus) States formerly possessing nuclear ...
It reached its peak around 1960, by which time it had evolved into a broader movement calling for Britain to unilaterally give up nuclear weapons, withdraw from NATO, and end the basing of nuclear-armed aircraft in the UK. The end of atmospheric nuclear testing, internal squabbles, and activists focusing their energies on other causes led to a ...
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) was established in 1954 as a statutory corporation to oversee and pioneer the development of nuclear energy within the United Kingdom. [ 14 ] The first station to be connected to the grid, on 27 August 1956, was Calder Hall , although the production of weapons-grade plutonium was the main ...
Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom. 24 articles. US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement British contribution to the Manhattan Project British hydrogen bomb programme
United Kingdom nuclear command and control (1 C, 20 P) N. Nuclear history of the United Kingdom (2 C, 26 P) Nuclear weapons infrastructure of the United Kingdom (10 P)