Name: The Sword and the Shield
ISBN: 978-1-137-31350-8

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Kristan Stoddart
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xx

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Introduction
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 1-10
The Heath Government, France, and the Not So Special Relationship, 1970–1974
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 11-42
The ‘Special Nuclear Relationship’ under Heath, 1970–1974
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 43-82
Britain, NATO’s Evolving Military Doctrine, and Its Nuclear Planning Group: The Balance between the Sword and the Shield, 1970–1974
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 83-114
National Strategy and Multilateral Priorities: British ‘Tactical’ Nuclear Operations, 1970–1974
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 115-137
The Last Wilson Governments and Strategic Nuclear Deterrence, 1974–1976
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 138-155
Nuclear Testing and the Practicalities of Moving Chevaline to Completion, 1974–1976
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 156-171
Britain, America, and NATO Modernisation, 1974–1976
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 172-202
Tactical Nuclear Weapons, Operational Employment, and Conventional Defence, 1974–1976
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 203-216
Conclusion
- Kristan Stoddart
Pages 217-232
Back Matter

Pages 233-324

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About this book

Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain's Polaris force codenamed Chevaline and how this could have brought down Harold Wilson's Labour government of 1974-1976.

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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK

Kristan Stoddart

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Kristan Stoddart is Lecturer in Cyber Security in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK. He previously worked at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton, UK.

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Book Title: The Sword and the Shield
Book Subtitle: Britain, America, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1970-1976
Authors: Kristan Stoddart
Series Title: Nuclear Weapons and International Security since 1945
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313508
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30093-4Published: 21 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33658-6Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31350-8Published: 29 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2947-6704
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6712
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 324
Topics: History of Military, European History, History of the Americas, Modern History

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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK

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