2013 This report examines the “damage criteria” used by the MOD in planning the UK’s nuclear weapons programme and more recent replacements, and how a desire for particular weapons systems has reshaped the amount of damage considered acceptable. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem
Unacceptable Damage
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Morning Star, ‘US getting Britain ready for day after.’
12 September 1984.
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‘Scce and The Citizen, Civil Defense.’
No date.
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The Guardian, Arnold Jackson, ‘Protect survive do business.’
21 June 1984.
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Articles: ‘Pope plans to ring ‘nuclear winter’ alarm, Pentagon admits danger of ‘nuclear winter’, & Scientists spell out danger to all life in nuclear winter.’
1984.
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Science, ‘Volume 228, Letters: “Nuclear Winter” Calculations.’
10 May 1985.
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Articles: Richard Beeston, ‘Threat of starvation in atom war, & Nuclear winter: Mechanics of SCOPE report.’
1985.
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Articles: ‘Nuclear Weapons Policies, Fears of a Nuclear Winter, Pentagon confirms nuclear winter threat, & Sunday Times Opinion poll: nuclear war.
1984.
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Science, ‘Volume 225, Nuclear Winter Attracts Additional Scrutiny.’
06 July 1984.
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Science, ‘Volume 225, News and Comment: China-U.S. Nuclear Deal Still a Puzzle.’
06 July 1984.
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Science, ‘Volume 225, Will Deterrence Survive a Nuclear Winter?’
20 July 1984.
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Scientific American, Richard P. Turco, Owen B. Toon, Thomas P. Ackermann, James B. Pollack, Carl Sagan, ‘Volume 251, Number 2, The Climatic Effects of Nuclear War.’
August 1984.
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