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Facing Down the Soviet Union
Kris Stoddart 
Swansea University Author:
Kris Stoddart
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DOI (Published version): 10.1057/9781137440334
Abstract
Facing Down the Soviet Union reveals for the first time the historic deliberations regarding the Chevaline upgrade to Britain's Polaris force, the decisions to procure the Trident C-4 and then D-5 system from the Americans in 1980 and 1982. It also details the decision to base Ground Launched C...
| ISBN: | 9781349494439 9781137440334 |
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| Published: |
London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2014
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57335 |
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| Abstract: |
Facing Down the Soviet Union reveals for the first time the historic deliberations regarding the Chevaline upgrade to Britain's Polaris force, the decisions to procure the Trident C-4 and then D-5 system from the Americans in 1980 and 1982. It also details the decision to base Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the UK in 1983. |
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| Keywords: |
Britain, America, NATO, Nuclear Weapons |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |