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Nuclear Weapons: Who’s in Charge?

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  • © 1987

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  1. Hugh Miall

    1. London, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Weapons Laboratories

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 11-28

  4. The Defence Contractor

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 29-43

  5. The Military

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 44-56

  6. The Defence Bureaucracies

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 57-72

  7. Presidents, Prime Ministers and Politburos

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 73-86

  8. Secrecy

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 87-95

  9. Parliaments

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 96-110

  10. Financial Control

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 111-122

  11. Public Opinion

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 123-134

  12. The Arms Controllers

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 135-153

  13. Conclusions

    • Hugh Miall
    Pages 154-159

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 160-167
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About this book

Ever since the possibility of nuclear fission arose in the minds of the physicists of the 1930s, nuclear weapons seem to have had a momentum of their own. In charge of them, and driven by them, are the nuclear decision-makers. This book takes the reader behind the tests and deployments of bombs and missiles to reveal who takes the decisions to develop nuclear weapons and what kind of people they are. Ranging from the laboratories where 'Star Wars' weapons are being invented, to the Design Bureau where Soviet missiles are developed, to Mururoa Atoll, testing site of the French neutron bomb, to the lake-side compound in the Beijing, from which the modernisation of Chinese nuclear weapons is directed, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, where warheads for British nuclear weapons are designed, the author asks: who is in charge of nuclear weapons?

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  • London, UK

    Hugh Miall

About the author

HUGH MIALL is a research co-ordinator with the Oxford Research Group. He read modern history at Merton College, Oxford, and later obtained a PhD in peace and conflict studies from the University of Lancaster. Before taking up his present position he was a consultant to Earth Resources Research and co-author of 'Energy Efficient Future: Opening the Solar Option'. He gave evidence at the Sizewell Inquiry in 1984.

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