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Charles P. Kindleberger,Robert Z. Aliberup in July 1954. The Atomic Energy Authority Act removed atomic energy from the Ministry of Supply and placed the project — research, production and weapons R&D — in a novel body outside the civil service. Its governing board was chaired by a chief executive, Sir Edwin Plowden, a senior civil servan

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Charles P. Kindleberger,Robert Z. Alibern bombs (not necessarily the same thing — chapter 5). The first priority was a 1–megaton device of the boosted Type A, which was the simpler solution. The more powerful and more difficult Type B — an H-bomb, whatever that might be — was a deferred possibility. A test of Type A was expected in 1957;

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Robert Z. Aliber,Charles P. Kindlebergergen bomb. There was no such danger then; Britain’s first atomic test, of a rather primitive fission device, was still over two years distant. But even before the Cabinet’s secret H-bomb decision of June 1954 launched a serious research programme, events were already in train that gravely threatened

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Standards und Tabus im Ausland,rogramme of development which had to be flexible because plans for later shots, and the order in which they were fired, depended largely on the results of the earlier ones. They also depended on larger contingencies — the encouraging prospects of renewed Anglo-American nuclear co-operation, and the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9234-5t the only, factor that enabled Harold Macmillan in 1958 to seize what he called ‘the great prize’ that three Prime Ministers before him had striven for. The background to the events of 1958 is outlined in the first part of this chapter.