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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Royal Engineers Journal
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Notices of the Proceedings
Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with Abstracts of the Discourses
Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989
Author: Simon J. Moody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192586343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The primary mission assigned to the British Army from the 1950s until the end of the Cold War was deterring Soviet aggression in Europe by demonstrating the will and capability to fight with nuclear weapons in defence of NATO territory. This 'surreal' mission was unlike any other in history, and raised a number of conceptual and practical difficulties. This comprehensive study observes how the British Army imagined nuclear war, and how it planned to fight it. Using new archival sources, Simon J. Moody analyses British thinking about tactical nuclear weapons, the role of the Army within NATO strategy, the development of theories of tactical nuclear warfare, how nuclear war was taught at the Staff College, the role of operational research, and the evolution of the Army's nuclear war-fighting doctrine. He argues that the British Army possessed the intellectual capacity for organisational adaptation, but that it displayed a cognitive dissonance about some of the more uncomfortable realities of nuclear war.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192586343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The primary mission assigned to the British Army from the 1950s until the end of the Cold War was deterring Soviet aggression in Europe by demonstrating the will and capability to fight with nuclear weapons in defence of NATO territory. This 'surreal' mission was unlike any other in history, and raised a number of conceptual and practical difficulties. This comprehensive study observes how the British Army imagined nuclear war, and how it planned to fight it. Using new archival sources, Simon J. Moody analyses British thinking about tactical nuclear weapons, the role of the Army within NATO strategy, the development of theories of tactical nuclear warfare, how nuclear war was taught at the Staff College, the role of operational research, and the evolution of the Army's nuclear war-fighting doctrine. He argues that the British Army possessed the intellectual capacity for organisational adaptation, but that it displayed a cognitive dissonance about some of the more uncomfortable realities of nuclear war.
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses
Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Official Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Catalogue of the Periodical Publications
Author: University College, London. Library
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Lighter Than Air
Author: Guy Warner
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473829046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he engaged in a huge number of enterprises and endeavours. Praise and respect garnered in accordance with his achievements all helped to establish his reputation in later years as an 'irreplaceable' pioneer and a leading light of early British airship design. His fertile imagination and enterprising spirit fused to form a dynamic personality, able in wartime to draw up countless schemes in an effort to outwit the enemy. His chief task during the Great War was to dream up new tactics and designs to combat the Zeppelin menace, perceived as one of the most damaging threats of the entire conflict. He was also deeply involved in the design of the very successful SS and Coastal Class airships; indeed, during 1915 he was actually appointed Inspector Commander of Airships at the Admiralty. Unfortunately, his illustrious career was destined to be cut short in 1916 when he was killed testing a prototype of one of his own designs. This new biography seeks to shine a light on an overlooked pioneer of early aviation and it does so in entertaining and reverential style. The importance of Usborne the pioneer is made plain; as one of his contemporaries commented upon his death No one can talk of the early days of British airship design without mention of his name and work. A personality was lost on that February day which was irreplaceable.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473829046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he engaged in a huge number of enterprises and endeavours. Praise and respect garnered in accordance with his achievements all helped to establish his reputation in later years as an 'irreplaceable' pioneer and a leading light of early British airship design. His fertile imagination and enterprising spirit fused to form a dynamic personality, able in wartime to draw up countless schemes in an effort to outwit the enemy. His chief task during the Great War was to dream up new tactics and designs to combat the Zeppelin menace, perceived as one of the most damaging threats of the entire conflict. He was also deeply involved in the design of the very successful SS and Coastal Class airships; indeed, during 1915 he was actually appointed Inspector Commander of Airships at the Admiralty. Unfortunately, his illustrious career was destined to be cut short in 1916 when he was killed testing a prototype of one of his own designs. This new biography seeks to shine a light on an overlooked pioneer of early aviation and it does so in entertaining and reverential style. The importance of Usborne the pioneer is made plain; as one of his contemporaries commented upon his death No one can talk of the early days of British airship design without mention of his name and work. A personality was lost on that February day which was irreplaceable.
Catalogue of Library of Engineer Department, U.S. Army
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Category : Engineering libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Publisher:
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Category : Engineering libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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