Britain and the bomb: nuclear diplomacy, 1964-1970
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 1331666
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780804786584
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 110,000-word book represents an extended piece of research, comprising the collection and analysis of original archival material from across the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition, the six-year scope of the book, from 1964 to 1970, meant that there was a large amount of new data to examine and analyse for both countries, especially in the context of the expansive Cold War historiography. Many of the primary sources used were difficult to access, involving multiple instances of domestic and international travel. As such, the book required a lengthy period of data collection, investigation, and analysis.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter 2 of Britain and the Bomb draws on my article ‘the Ambiguities of Opposition’, which was returned for REF 2014. I believe that one relatively small chapter in a large book—which comprises 6 chapters, an introduction, conclusion, epilogue, and more than 1,500 references—does not represent a significant overlap. The chapter in this book also benefits from additional primary and secondary source materials that were not used in the article previously. In addition, it is framed differently, to support and contextualize the broader arguments advanced in the book.
In terms of the content of the book, the chapter in question only plays a minor role. It offers an overview of Harold Wilson’s nuclear policies in opposition in 1963, simply to help contextualize the core focus of the book that follows—namely, a detailed and novel interpretation of Wilson’s policies in office between 1964 and 1970. Nor is this chapter the only element of contextualization in the book. The first chapter offers a far broader and more detailed overview of nuclear policy between 1945 and 1962, which is far more important for the analysis that follows. In sum, chapter 2 plays a small and limited role in Britain and the Bomb. The core claims and insights of the book under consideration for REF 2021 are therefore distinct from the previously returned article.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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