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
Morning Star, ‘US getting Britain ready for day after.’
12 September 1984.
‘Scce and The Citizen, Civil Defense.’
No date.
The Guardian, Arnold Jackson, ‘Protect survive do business.’
21 June 1984.
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.
Science, ‘Volume 228, Letters: “Nuclear Winter” Calculations.’
10 May 1985.
Articles: Richard Beeston, ‘Threat of starvation in atom war, & Nuclear winter: Mechanics of SCOPE report.’
1985.
Articles: ‘Nuclear Weapons Policies, Fears of a Nuclear Winter, Pentagon confirms nuclear winter threat, & Sunday Times Opinion poll: nuclear war.
1984.
Science, ‘Volume 225, Nuclear Winter Attracts Additional Scrutiny.’
06 July 1984.
Science, ‘Volume 225, News and Comment: China-U.S. Nuclear Deal Still a Puzzle.’
06 July 1984.
Science, ‘Volume 225, Will Deterrence Survive a Nuclear Winter?’
20 July 1984.
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.