Название: Britain on the Brink: The Cold War's Most Dangerous Weekend, 27-28 October 1962
Автор: Jim Wilson
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848848145
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 15,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Britain was America's first-line defense, a vulnerable, but unsinkable ‘aircraft carrier' on which the United States based the Strategic Air Command's first-strike elements of their America's nuclear deterrent. The Strategic Air Command's UKbases and the RAF's V-Force were ordered to the highest state of readiness at any time during the Cold War. Nuclear weapons were loaded, some nuclear-armed aircraft went on round-the-clock airborne patrol, others were held at cockpit readiness. But the British public was largely unaware that, as tensions rose thousands of miles away, the UK itself was under imminent threat of Armageddon. The book focuses on the implications for Britain of the covert deployment by the Soviet Union of ballistic nuclear missiles ninety miles off the US coast. It follows the crisis as it developed in London, Washington and Moscow. It looks at secret planning in the UK for World War III, and the activities of the JIGSAW Group (Joint Inter-Services Group for the Study of All-Out War).