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The Wilson Government and British Responses to Anti-Ballistic Missiles, 1964–1970

Kristan Stoddart

Contemporary British History, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 1 - 33

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/13619460801990096

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One of the most pressing questions for the new government of Harold Wilson following the Labour Party's slender General Election victory of October 1964, as far as the UK's nuclear deterrent was concerned, was how to shore up the credibility gap that was in evidence with the decline of the...

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Published in: Contemporary British History
ISSN: 1361-9462 1743-7997
Published: Informa UK Limited 2009
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