Supreme Emergency : How Britain Lives with the Bomb
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| Title: | Supreme Emergency : How Britain Lives with the Bomb |
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| Description: | 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 zeppelin raids on London, the strategic bombing raids of the Second World War and the evolution of the UK nuclear deterrent. It concludes that among all the technical factors, an aversion to being seen to condone civilian casualties has inhibited government engagement with the public on deterrence strategy since 1915. |
| Authors: | Andrew Corbett |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Deterrence (Strategy), Nuclear weapons--Great Britain--History, Nuclear weapons--Government policy--Great Britain--History |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 zeppelin raids on London, the strategic bombing raids of the Second World War and the evolution of the UK nuclear deterrent. It concludes that among all the technical factors, an aversion to being seen to condone civilian casualties has inhibited government engagement with the public on deterrence strategy since 1915. |
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| ISBN: | 9781526147363 9781526147370 9781526159304 |
