Every Club in the Bag
R.W. Johnson: Whitehall and Moscow, 8 August 2002
The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 234 pp., £16.99, March 2002,0 7139 9626 9 Show More
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 234 pp., £16.99, March 2002,
Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World
by Percy Cradock.
Murray, 351 pp., £25, March 2002,0 7195 6048 9 Show More
by Percy Cradock.
Murray, 351 pp., £25, March 2002,
“... and one’s first hatreds.’ The nuclear age transformed the worlds of strategy and Intelligence. Peter Hennessy describes step by step how Britain got the bomb and what it was then used for. From 1945 on, the Chiefs of Staff took it for granted that Britain had to have ‘every club in the bag’, and the RAF began adapting the V-bomber force to deliver the ... ”