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After the bomb : civil defence and nuclear war in Britain, 1945-68 /

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"Civil defence was an integral part of Britain's modern history. Throughout the cold war it was a central response of the British Government to the threat of war. This book is the first history of the preparations to fight a nuclear war taken in Britain between the end of the Second World...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, Matthew, 1980-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Military policy.
Nuclear weapons > Great Britain > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Cold War and the new civil defence
  • Preparing for a third World War
  • Protecting the public
  • The hydrogen bomb revolution
  • Years of decision
  • Separate spheres of civil defence
  • Equipoise, crisis and reform
  • Gradual decline and sudden fall.