The British nuclear weapons programme, 1952-2002 / editors, Douglas Holdstock, Frank Barnaby ; with a foreword by Joseph Rotblat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holdstock, Douglas, 1933-2008.

Barnaby, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Great Britain.

Nuclear weapons.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Military policy.

Military policy.

Physical Description:

xxii, 168 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.

Contents:

1. British Nuclear Weapons Policy / Tom Milne 12

2. Legality of British Nuclear Weapons / Ronald King Murray 23

3. The Nuclear Battlefield / Hugh Beach 32

4. My First Trip to Ground Zero / Ric Johnstone 47

5. Why I Rejected Nuclear Weapons / Robert Green 51

6. Resisting the British Bomb

The Early Years / Duncan Rees 56

The 1980s / Bruce Kent 64

Recent Times / Janet Bloomfield 71

7. British Nuclear Tests and the Indigenous People of Australia / Roger Cross 76

8. Cleaning-Up Maralinga / Alan Parkinson 91

9. Long-term Health Effects in UK Test Veterans / Sue Rabbitt Roff 101

10. Health Effects at Home / Douglas Holdstock 115

11. Nuclear Terrorism: Today's Nuclear Threat / Frank Barnaby 122

12. An End to British Nuclear Weapons? / R.S. Pease 131

Appendix 1 British Nuclear Weapons 145

Appendix 2 British Nuclear Weapon Tests 147

Appendix 3 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0714653829

0714683175

OCLC:

52001805