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  title info:
    title: Facing down the Soviet Union
    sub title: Britain, the USA, NATO and nuclear weapons, 1976-1983
  name:
    name part: Stoddart, Kristan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 323 pages ; 23 cm.
  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 highly controversial decision to base Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the UK in 1983. Chevaline was one of the most expensive and technically difficult defence projects the British had yet undertaken. It took much of its rationale from intelligence assessments of Soviet anti-ballistic missiles which had planted doubts as to the effectiveness of Polaris as the UK's strategic deterrent. The Polaris-Chevaline system remained in service until it was gradually replaced with Trident in 1994. The first deal over Trident (the C-4 decision in 1980) was informed by the Chevaline experience and the penalties of a lack of commonality with the United States. The decision benefitted from a comprehensive study known as the Duff-Mason Report which was the key background document used by the Conservative government of Mrs. Thatcher in the purchase of C-4. The decision to opt for the increased striking power of Trident II D-5 was also driven by the penalties of time-limited commonality with the Americans. It remains operational with both the Royal Navy and United States Navy.
  table of contents: 1. The British Labour Government and the Development of Chevaline, 1976-1979 -- 2. The Callaghan Government and Polaris Replacement 1976-1979 : The Duff-Mason Report -- 3. Britain, the US and NATO LRTNF Modernisation, 1976-1979 -- 4. "Gone Bananas" : The Conservative Government and Chevaline, 1979-1983 -- 5. Mrs. Thatcher and the Trident C-4 Decision -- 6. Follow-on Negotiations for Trident C-4 -- 7. Mrs. Thatcher, MISC 7 and the Trident II D-5 Decision -- 8. Creating the "Seamless Robe of Deterrence" : Great Britain's Role in NATO's INF Debate -- Conclusion.
  note: Kristan Stoddart, Lecturer at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear weapons
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Fleet ballistic missile weapons systems
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Military policy
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    name:
      name part: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: Nuclear Warfare
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Modern
    topic: 20th Century
  classification: U264.5.G7 S75 2014
  classification: 355.02/170941
  identifier: 9781137440310 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137440317 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014026289
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140818
    record change date: 20161222105008.0
    record identifier: in00003496380