Facing Down The Soviet Union: Britain, The Usa, Nato And Nuclear Weapons, 1976-1983

Facing Down the Soviet Union reveals for the first time the historic deliberations regarding the Chevaline upgrade to Britain's Polaris force, the decisions to procure the Trident C-4 and then D-5 system from the Americans in 1980 and 1982. It also details the decision to base Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the UK in 1983.

• • Author: Kristan Stoddart
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Oct 15, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 335 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137440317
• • ISBN-13: 9781137440310