British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002
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Product details
- ISBN 9780714683171
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first British nuclear weapon test took place in Australia in October 1952. British nuclear weapons have been a source of controversy ever since. In this book, scientists, doctors, researchers and others assess the military value, political impact, health effects and legality of the programme.
Frank Barnaby is consultant to Oxford Research Group on technical and scientific issues and has been on the Group’s Council of Advisers since its inception. He is a nuclear physicist by training and a prolific author. He worked at the AWRE, Aldermaston (1951–57) and was on the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council. He was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (1971–81) and Guest Professor at the Free University, Amsterdam (1981–85). Douglas Holdstock is a retired consultant physician and a founder member of Medact, the UK affiliate of IPPNW He has edited Medicine, Conflict and Survival since 1990, written widely on health effects of war and weapons of mass destruction and co-edited, with Frank Barnaby, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Retrospect and Prospect (1995).
