Abstract
The prospect facing British Governments is that of political requirements for an expanding defence effort arising from a serious and tense international situation at a time when the requirements of domestic economic management point to constriction. One possible way out would be a period of serious detente, accompanied by equally serious arms control, which would calm East-West relations and allow both sides to reduce their force levels without a diminution of security.
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In Congressional hearings in March 1978 Rear Admiral Thomas Davies, an Assistant Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, described the British point of view as being ‘essentially identical with that of the United States’. In response to questioning, he noted a ‘tactical’ difference over how best to make the treaty multilateral and one other, the details of which were removed by the censor. US Congress House of Representatives, Intelligence and Military Application of Nuclear Energy. Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, Current Negotiations on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (15 March 1978), pp. 3, 10.
Hearings before the Panel on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty of the Intelligence and Military Application on Nuclear Energy Subcommittee of the House of Representatives. Committee on Armed Services, Effects of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on United States National Security Interests (14–15 August 1978).
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Freedman, L. (1980). Arms Control. In: Britain and Nuclear Weapons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16388-5_9
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