Counting weapons
Rudolf Peierls, 5 March 1981
Britain and Nuclear Weapons
by Lawrence Freedman.
Papermac, 160 pp., £3.25, September 1980,0 333 30511 6 Show More
by Lawrence Freedman.
Papermac, 160 pp., £3.25, September 1980,
Countdown: Britain’s Strategic Forces
by Stewart Menual.
Hale, 188 pp., £8.25, October 1980,0 7091 8592 8 Show More
by Stewart Menual.
Hale, 188 pp., £8.25, October 1980,
Protest and Survive
edited by E.P. Thompson and Dan Smith.
Penguin, 262 pp., £1.50, October 1980,0 14 052341 3 Show More
edited by E.P. Thompson and Dan Smith.
Penguin, 262 pp., £1.50, October 1980,
“... alternative options, he thinks this a good choice. This is strongly questioned by Air Vice-Marshal Stewart Menaul. To him, the decision to rely on submarine-carried missiles when the V-bombers became obsolete was misguided, and the choice of Tridents even worse. The only sensible option now, he maintains, would have been Cruise missiles. The views of a ... ”