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The Labour Party won the October 1964 general election after a campaign during which the Conservative Party had suggested that the future of the nuclear deterrent was at stake. Yet the Polaris programme survived the new Government, with the only slight concession to the anti-nuclear lobby being the cut of the planned force from five to four boats.
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Harold Macmillan, At the End of the Day (London: Macmillan, 1973),p. 363.
Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, vol. 3 (London: Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, 1977) pp. 200, 325.
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Freedman, L. (1980). The Labour Government and Nuclear Weapons 1964–70. In: Britain and Nuclear Weapons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16388-5_4
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