Supreme Emergency: How Britain Lives with the Bomb

by Andrew Corbett

In Supreme emergency, an ex-Trident submarine captain considers the evolution of UK nuclear deterrence policy and the implications of a previously unacknowledged aversion to military strategies that threaten civilian casualties. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book provides a unique synthesis of the factors affecting British nuclear policy decision-making and draws parallels between government debates about reprisals for First World War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152614736X
• ISBN13: 9781526147363
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"