The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002
Published on 30. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-7146-8317-1 (ISBN)
Description
The first British nuclear weapon test took place in Australia in October 1952. British nuclear weapons have been a source of controversy ever since. In this book, scientists, doctors, researchers and others assess the military value, political impact, health effects and legality of the programme.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7146-8317-1 (9780714683171)
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Frank Barnaby | Douglas Holdstock
The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002
E-Book
11/2004
Routledge
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Frank Barnaby | Douglas Holdstock
The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002
E-Book
11/2004
Routledge
€69.99
Available for download
Frank Barnaby | Douglas Holdstock
The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002
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07/2003
Frank Cass Publishers
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Persons
Frank Barnaby is consultant to Oxford Research Group on technical and scientific issues and has been on the Group's Council of Advisers since its inception. He is a nuclear physicist by training and a prolific author. He worked at the AWRE, Aldermaston (1951-57) and was on the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council. He was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (1971-81) and Guest Professor at the Free University, Amsterdam (1981-85). Douglas Holdstock is a retired consultant physician and a founder member of Medact, the UK affiliate of IPPNW He has edited Medicine, Conflict and Survival since 1990, written widely on health effects of war and weapons of mass destruction and co-edited, with Frank Barnaby, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Retrospect and Prospect (1995).
Content
1. British Nuclear Weapons Policy 2. Legality of British Nuclear Weapons 3. The Nuclear Battlefield 4. My First Trip to Ground Zero 5. Why I Rejected Nuclear Weapons 6. Resisting the British Bomb: The early years 7. The 1980s 8. Recent Times 9. British Nuclear Tests and the Indigenous people of Australia 10. Cleaning-Up Maralinga 11. Long-term Health Effects in UK Test Veterans 12. Health Effects at Home 13. Nuclear Terrorism: Today's nuclear threat 14. An End to British Nuclear Weapons?