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The role of nuclear weapons as a means for reversing Britain’s decline in power and world status continued to be a constant theme in defence planning throughout the first postwar decade.1 Though confusions concerning the actual exercise of this nuclear might remained endemic, there was virtual unanimity in defence policy-making circles that fission and fusion weapons were indispensable instruments of Britain’s strategic posture.
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Navias, M.S. (1990). Nuclear Weapons and British Alliance Commitments, 1955–56. In: Deighton, A. (eds) Britain and the First Cold War. University of Reading European and International Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10756-8_9
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