A Very British Bomb

A History of the United Kingdom as a Nuclear Power

James Jinks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

496 Seiten

2026
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-241-29188-7 (ISBN)

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A Very British Bomb is the first authoritative history of Britain as a nuclear weapons power. Written with access to newly declassified Top Secret Government documents it gives the most complete account yet published of the United Kingdom's development, deployment and politics of nuclear weapons, from the scientific breakthroughs which occurred in the early twentieth century, through the Second World War, the Cold War, to the present. It tells the very human story of the tens of thousands of men and women, who spent and continue to spend their lives working on what amounts to one of the most expensive and sensitive national endeavours ever undertaken by the British state.

Dr James Jinks is a historian and author. He is co-author, with Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, of The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 (Allen Lane, Penguin, 2016), and author of A Very British Bomb: A History of the United Kingdom as a Nuclear Power (Allen Lane, Penguin). He is now at work on the authorized biography of Admiral Sir John ‘Sandy’ Woodward, GBE, KCB, The Last Fighting Admiral: The Life and Times of Admiral Sir John ‘Sandy’ Woodward, GBE, KCB (Allen Lane, Penguin). He has previously worked for the Cabinet Office, and the Aircraft Carrier Alliance.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.11.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 240 mm
Gewicht	750 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-241-29188-7 / 0241291887
ISBN-13	978-0-241-29188-7 / 9780241291887
Zustand	Neuware