Harold Macmillan, Part 4: Pressing the Button

Harold Macmillan, Part 4: Pressing the Button

How would Harold Macmillan have ordered nuclear retaliation?


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The books and articles I used in this episode are listed below:


The Secret State by Peter Hennessy

Winds of Change by Peter Hennessy

The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy

Cabinet by Peter Hennessy

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by D.R. Thorpe

Planning Armageddon: Britain, the United States and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-1964, by Len Scott, Robert Twigge et al.

'A Matter of Joint Decision': The Origins of British Nuclear Retaliation Procedures and the Murphy-Dean Agreement of 1958, by Matthew Jones in the English Historical Review


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