1958 saw the first protest march to Britain’s nuclear bomb factory at Aldermaston, the start of the deployment of US THOR ballistic missiles with thermonuclear warheads at RAF Feltwell, a series of British thermonuclear tests at Christmas Island and the US and the UK signing the Agreement For Cooperation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defence Purposes – also known as the Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA).
A Thorn in Their Side
A Thorn in their Side: The Hilda Murrell Murder? by Commander Robert Green. This book could have been a crime novel except the plot was too complicated for a fictional writer to dream up and, unlike most crime novels, the murder is not solved nor are the real perpetrators apprehended. But it comes very close.
Nuclear deterrence: A tried and tested defense strategy or an elaborate belief system masquerading as scientific theory?
Blair has turned a six-year opportunity to discuss replacing Trident into a six-month rubber-stamping exercise
A BASIC guide to missile defense and the weaponisation of space
US proposals and British involvement in missile defense initiative
US–UK nuclear weapons collaboration under the Mutual Defence Agreement
Shining a torch on the darker recesses of the 'special relationship' since 1958
Interdiction under the Proliferation Security Initiative: Counter-proliferation or counter-productive?
Considers the origins of the PSI, Britain's role and its compatibility with international law
The IAEA and Iran’s nuclear programme: Entirely legitimate or clandestine intent?
The latest developments in Iran and international concerns
Time for a nuclear weapons-free zone in Europe?
Nato still holds to outmoded justification to keep tactical nuclear weapons in Europe