Interpreting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons and Global Security in Declassified British Intelligence

│By Eleanor Turner, Gale Ambassador at the University of Leeds│

Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence offers unique insight into how governments understand and respond to global security threats. The emergence of nuclear weapons in 1945 fundamentally altered the structure of international politics, leading governments to rethink what military conflict could escalate to and the devastating consequences of deploying nuclear weapons. Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence shows how the British government strategised to overcome these changes.

Joint Intelligence Committee: memoranda 21-41. February-September, 1957.
Joint Intelligence Committee: memoranda 21-41. February-September, 1957. MS Cabinet Office: CAB 158: Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee later Committee: Memoranda (JIC Series) CAB 158/28. The National Archives (Kew, United Kingdom). Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/KBZRTF084274961/TCBI?u=leedsuni&sid=bookmark-TCBI&xid=36c0c368&pg=137&xty=open

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