Simon J Moody

Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989

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Produktbeschreibung

The primary mission assigned to the British Army from the 1950s until the end of the Cold War was deterring Soviet aggression in Europe by demonstrating the will and capability to fight with nuclear weapons to defend NATO territory. This is the first comprehensive account of how the British Army imagined nuclear war, and how it planned to fight it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198846994
• ISBN-10: 0198846991
• Artikelnr.: 58422966

Autorenporträt

Simon J. Moody is a Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College, London. He completed his AHRC funded PhD at KCL in 2014, after an MA from the University of Leeds and a BA from the University of Salford. His research interests can be broadly defined as the history of strategic thought, theories of war, nuclear strategy, and British defence policy after 1945.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: British Thinking about Tactical Nuclear Weapons
2: Conventional Forces and Tactical Nuclear Weapons in NATO Strategy
3: Military Publicists and Theories of Tactical Nuclear War
4: Nuclear Instruction at the Staff College
5: Operational Research and the Nuclear Battlefield
6: The Evolution of Nuclear War-Fighting Doctrine
Conclusion