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Allen, Scott. "A Comparison of the Washington Naval Arms Limitation Treaty of 1922 and the Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements of 1972." Ph.D. diss, Hawaii, 1976, 227 pp. (DAI 37/08, p. 5340).

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, disarmament, arms reduction, arms limitation, reduction of arms, treaty , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , missile, rocket, ballistic missile, nuclear , strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade

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Allen, Thomas B. & Polmar, Norman. Rickover: Father of the Nuclear Navy. Military Profile Series. Dulles: Potomac, 2007, xvi, 103 pp. Hyman J. Rickover.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, nuclear , personality, prominent leader, noted person , propulsion , Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy, submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, ship, boat, vessel

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Anderson, William R. & Blair, Clay, Jr. Nautilus 90 North. Cleveland: World, 1959, 251 pp. First nuclear submarine; to North Pole.

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20th century, twentieth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , cold war, nuclear , propulsion , submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, united states navy, US navy, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure

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Antonov, A.M. "The Birth of Red October." USNIP, 121 (December 1995): 79-81. Late 1950s; K-5 November Class Soviet nuclear submarine.

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Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , cold war, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , nuclear , nautical fiction, sea fiction , submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, propulsion

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Armitage, M.J. & Mason, R.A., eds. Air Power in the Nuclear Age: Theory and Practice. Urbana: Illinois UP; London: Macmillan, 1983, xv, 296 pp. 9 essays, some cited.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, missile, rocket, ballistic missile, nuclear , sea power, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation

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Arnold, Lorna & Pyne, Katherine. Britain and the H-Bomb. London: Palgrave, 1991, 2001, 288 pp.

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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, nuclear , weapon, arms trade

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Arnold, Lorna & Smith, Mark. Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, xiv, 322 pp.

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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, nuclear , Royal Australian Navy, Australia , weapon, arms trade , strategy, strategic

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Arnold, Lorna. A Very Special Relationship: British Atomic Weapons Trials in Australia. London: HMSO, 1987, xiv, 322 pp.

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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, nuclear , Royal Australian Navy, Australia , weapon, arms trade , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation

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Ashton, Nigel John. Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: The Irony of Interdependence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, xiii, 288 pp. Issues: Cuban Missile Crisis & British nuclear deterrence.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, cold war, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , missile, rocket, ballistic missile, nuclear , strategy, strategic, submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, Special Relationship, Anglo-American relation, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA

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Baker, William Avery & Tryckare, Tre. The Engine-Powered Vessel: From Paddle-Wheeler to Nuclear Ship. New York: Grosset & Dunlap; London: Watts, 1965, 1966, 267 pp. Folio; profusely illustrated.

Keywords:

age of steam, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , 19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, nuclear , propulsion , ship, boat, vessel, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders

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Ball, Desmond & Richelson, Jeffrey, eds. Strategic Nuclear Targetting. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986, 367 pp. 14 essays, 4 countries.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, nuclear , strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade

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Ball, Desmond. "Nuclear War at Sea." See S. Miller, Naval Strategy & National Security, pp. 303-31.

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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, nuclear , strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade

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Ball, Simon J. "'Vested Interests and Vanished Dreams': Duncan Sandys, the Chiefs of Staff and the 1957 White Paper." See P. Smith, Government and Armed Forces, pp. 217-34.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, 20th century, twentieth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, cold war, First Sea Lord, professional head of Admiralty , nuclear , Royal Navy, Britain, England, strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence

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Ball, Simon J. "Harold Macmillan and the Politics of Defence: The Market for Strategic Ideas during the Sandys Era Revisited." 20th-Century British History, 6 (1995): 78-100. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Defence, late 1950s.

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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, cold war, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , nuclear , Royal Navy, Britain, England, strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade

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Ball, Simon J. "Military Nuclear Relations between the U.S. and Great Britain under the Terms of the McMahon Act, 1946-1958." HJ, 38 (June 1995): 439-54. Joint nuclear policy but, at first, U.S. reluctant.

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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, cold war, nuclear , strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade

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Ball, Simon J. "The Royal Air Force and British Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1959." D.Phil. diss, Cambridge, 1991.

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20th century, twentieth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, cold war, nuclear , strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade

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Barnaby, Frank & Holdstock Douglas, eds. The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002. London: Cass, 2003, 168 pp.

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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, cold war, nuclear , weapon, arms trade

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Baxter, James Phinney, III. Scientists against Time. Cambridge: MIT UP; Boston: Little Brown, 1946, 1968, xxi, 473 pp. Development of A-Bomb & other complex technologies.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, nuclear , science , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, weapon, arms trade , cold war

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Baylis, John Bruford & Stoddart, Kristan. "Britain and the Chevaline Project: The Hidden Nuclear Programme, 1967-1982." J Stra Stu, 26 (December 2003): 124-55. Secret until 1980; led to Polaris Programme.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, aircraft carrier, carrier, warfare, cold war, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, nuclear , Royal Navy, Britain, England, missile, rocket, ballistic missile, submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, weapon, arms trade

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Baylis, John Bruford. Ambiguity and Deterrence: British Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1964. Nuclear History Program Series, # 4. London: Oxford, UP, 1995, 1996, vii, 495 pp. 1964, end of era; Defence reorganized; conclusion: independent nuclear capability not affordable.

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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, cold war, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, nuclear , strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade

Abbreviations
AHR American Historical Review
Alb Albion
alt alternate
Am Nep American Neptune
AQ & DJ Army Quarterly and Defence Journal
ASLIB Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses)
BIHR Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Can His Rev Canadian Historical Review
Can J His Canadian Journal of History
comp Compiled by
DAI Dissertation Abstracts International
EcHR Economic History Review
ed editor or edited by
EnHR English Historical Review
HisAHR Hispanic American Historical Review
HJ Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal)
His Res Historical Research
His Tod History Today
Intell & Nat Sec Intelligence and National Security
IJ Mar His International Journal of Maritime History
IJ Nau Arch International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
IHR International History Review
intro introduction
J Am His Journal of American History
J Asian His Journal of Asian History
JBS Journal of British Studies
J Cont His Journal of Contemporary History
J Econ His Journal of Economic History
JI & CH Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
J Mar Res Journal for Maritime Research
J Mil His Journal of Military History
J Mod His Journal of Modern History
JRUSI Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute
J Soc His Journal of Social History
JSAHR Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
J Stra Stu Journal of Strategic Studies
J Trans His Journal of Transport History
J Wor His Journal of World History
MM Mariner's Mirror
Mil Aff Military Affairs
NHS Naval History Symposium (USNA)
NMM National Maritime Museum
Nav Rev Naval Review
NWCR Naval War College Review (US)
Nel Dis Nelson Dispatch
NIP Naval Institute Press
Nor Mar Northern Mariner
Pac His Rev Pacific Historical Review
P & P Past and Present
Traf Chron Trafalgar Chronicle
trans translated by
UP University Press
USNIP Proceedings of the Naval Institute
Vic Stu Victorian Studies
War & Soc War and Society
War in His War in History
W&MQ William and Mary Quarterly
WSS World Ship Society

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