The National Archives of the UK have just released Cabinet Secretaries' notebooks from 1954 including a discussion by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his Cabinet of their nuclear weapons programme and further research and manufacture of a Hydrogen bomb.
Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
Issues canvassed in the discussion include the morality of developing such weapons, their effectiveness as a deterrent against attack by Russia and China, the Anglo-American alliance as it impacts upon the Cabinet decision, constraints due to lack of scientific manpower and surprise that a H-bomb programme was in place.
Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information ...
Posted by: Andy | Thursday, 20 December 2007 at 14:57