Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The US Fleet Ballistic Missile system: technology and nuclear war
- 2 Theoretical models of weapons development
- 3 Heterogeneous engineering and the origins of the fleet ballistic missile
- 4 Building Polaris
- 5 Success and successors
- 6 Poseidon
- 7 Strat-X, ULMS and Trident I
- 8 The improved accuracy programme and Trident II
- 9 Understanding technical change in weaponry
- 10 Appendix: List of interviewees
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The US Fleet Ballistic Missile system: technology and nuclear war
- 2 Theoretical models of weapons development
- 3 Heterogeneous engineering and the origins of the fleet ballistic missile
- 4 Building Polaris
- 5 Success and successors
- 6 Poseidon
- 7 Strat-X, ULMS and Trident I
- 8 The improved accuracy programme and Trident II
- 9 Understanding technical change in weaponry
- 10 Appendix: List of interviewees
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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- From Polaris to TridentThe Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology, pp. 198 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994