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Article: Planning Armageddon: Britain, the United States, and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-64.(Review)
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- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Planning Armageddon: Britain, the United States, and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-64 By Stephen Twigge & Len Scott Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000 374 pages; $56.00
IN 1961, A BRITISH OFFICIAL WRITING about the complex "dual-key" arrangement for the control of U.S. nuclear weapons on British soil struggled to determine the best course of action if trans-Atlantic communications failed during a crisis. "It might be desirable," he wrote, "to seek an assurance from the president that in the event of such a failure, a suitable United States authority in this country would have the power to release United States weapons and warheads to us." If no ...