Product Description

In this book, scientists, doctors, peace researchers and others assess the military value, political impact, health effects and legality of the British Nuclear Weapons programme.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #779805 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-30
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

From the Back Cover
The first British nuclear weapon test took place in Australia in October 1952 and British nuclear weapons have been a source of controversy ever since. In this book, scientists, doctors, peace researchers and others assess the military value, political impact, health effects and legality of the programme and tell the story of opposition to successive generations of weapons. With the future of Trident soon to come under review, this book questions whether British nuclear weapons should have a future.

Customer Reviews

Good book, misleading title.
Anyone looking at the title and expecting a technical or operational history of the subject should look elsewhere - this is NOT a comprehensive account of the development or implementation of British nukes. However, it is an interesting and valuable collection of essays on the social, political and environmental consequences of the "British Bomb", albeit written from a single, distinctly 'anti-' perspective. The sections dealing with Trident have suddenly become extremely topical and are themselves worth reading the book for. Within the terms of it's own context there does seem to be one major question that's strangely omitted from this book, but which others [such as Duncan Campbell] have tried to ask before - i.e. just 'how British are the "British" weapons'? Just one last 'niggle': because this is a set of essays by different authors, there is rather a lot of detail replicated between different chapters; a little more careful editing might have made it hang together better as a single volume.