Military History Books by Charles E. MacKay
2 titles · published 2016 to 2019
The British nuclear deterrent from Tube Alloys to the V-bombers, Blue Steel and Polaris, and the 1945 statements on the atomic bomb.
1945 Statements on the Atomic Bomb by Charles E. MacKay is a history covering Churchill, Truman, Oppenheimer and the Quebec Agreement.
192 pages · 21 March 2019£12.89Sonic to Standoff by Charles E. MacKay is a history of the British nuclear deterrent, from the V-bombers and Blue Steel to Polaris and Thor.
207 pages · 16 January 2016£13.96
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These two volumes trace the scientific, industrial, and operational history of nuclear weapons from wartime atomic research to Britain's Cold War strategic deterrent. 1945 Statements on the Atomic Bomb (ISBN 9780957344396) brings together the official August 1945 British and American statements alongside the wartime background of the MAUD Committee, the Tube Alloys project and its integration with the American Manhattan District, the Canadian statement by C. D. Howe, the Alsos scientific intelligence mission into Germany, and the Manhattan Project raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sonic to Standoff: The Evolution of the British Nuclear Deterrent (ISBN 9780957344341) follows Britain's post-war independent deterrent from the Tube Alloys work and the Quebec Agreement to the William Penney tests at Operation Hurricane in the Montebello Islands, the Royal Air Force V-bomber force (Vickers Valiant, Handley Page Victor, and Avro Vulcan), the Avro Blue Steel stand-off missile, Skybolt, Thor IRBM squadrons, the WE177 free-fall nuclear bomb, and the Royal Navy Resolution-class Polaris submarines at Faslane on the Clyde.
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