[…] accepted that detente with the Soviet bloc was established and the ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was […]
[PDF file]: […] canapés, nobody was talking about Iraq….The only comment I have heard anyone make about the bombardment is how amusing would be the conjunction of a Tomahawk cruise missile and Richard Branson’s balloon.’ In August 1999, a boatload of celebrities was ferried to Liberty Island for the launch of Tina Brown’s new magazine Talk. According […]
[PDF file]: […] Army had 170 divisions, but without realising that only one third were combat-ready. the West also over-estimated the number of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles. In reality the “missile gap” in favour of the Soviet Union never existed; the West had more long-range nuclear missiles than the Soviets.’ This is ridiculous. A ‘Pearl Harbour-like surprise […]
[PDF file]: […] accepted that detente with the Soviet bloc was established and the ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was […]
[PDF file]: […] From 1946 the UK built and successfully tested both atomic (1952) and hydrogen (1957) bombs respectively. Alongside these programmes it also commenced development of its own ballistic missile system. Named Blue Streak, this was supposed to be in service by 1965. This was very ambitious for a medium sized economy; it took France 15 […]
[…] Army had 170 divisions, but without realising that only one third were combat-ready. the West also over-estimated the number of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles. In reality the “missile gap” in favour of the Soviet Union never existed; the West had more long-range nuclear missiles than the Soviets.’ This is ridiculous. A ‘Pearl Harbour-like surprise […]
[…] Destiny In weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the U.S. ‘remains by far the biggest champion’. WMD falls under the following treaties: Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABMT), Chemical 2 See for a revealing interview with Josh Stieber, a former soldier in the company which attended the dead and wounded in the […]
[PDF file]: […] Destiny In weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the U.S. ‘remains by far the biggest champion’. WMD falls under the following treaties: Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABMT), Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), Outer Space Treaty (OST), Comprehensive Test ban Treaty (CTBT) and relevant statutes in the Geneva Conventions. […]
[PDF file]: […] 1 aircraft (Airborne Warning and Control System), RAF Kinloss closed.1 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, other military systems, such as the Bloodhound surface to air missile, disappeared along with their bases. The military footprint in the UK shrank in what perhaps some would call the ‘peace dividend’ and others would describe as […]
[PDF file]: […] weapon. Because of the invisibility of malware it will be less accountable and, as we’ve seen with NSO, it will be given special treatment politically. Unlike a missile, this is an area of production which is continually evolving, whose current status for obvious reasons must always be kept under wraps. It forms part of […]
