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Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State
[PDF file]: […] deterrent at all) and by both the willingness and the ability to project power beyond the European theatre. That is why an upgrade for the Trident nuclear missile was agreed and why two new aircraft carriers have been built, all at vast expense, in the last decade. It is why Britain went to war […]
‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963
[PDF file]: […] One consequence of this was that the Lough Erne corridor remained in use for fighter and reconnaissance flights into the Atlantic. As noted above, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Seán Lemass authorised searches of aircraft that stopped over at Shannon between Warsaw Pact countries and Cuba; and that same year (1962) went on record […]
Apocryphylia
[PDF file]: […] point – was Wilson a Soviet agent? Macmillan was simultaneously trying to persuade an irritated, reluctant and puzzled US that the UK should borrow/share the Polaris nuclear missile system (why didn’t the British just build their own?). Wilson and Labour looked absolutely certain to win an election held at any time in 1963-1964. Advised […]
Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff
[PDF file]: […] the business of selling secure shelters where the wealthy can sit out the misfortunes that befall the rest of us. Many of these are converted Cold War missile silos. As with ReGen it isn’t clear how many of these have been built. But, there again, if you were buying one and fitting it out, […]
The view from the bridge
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Britannia Unchained, by Kwasi Kwarteng , Elizabeth Truss et al
[PDF file]: […] Cameron think they are doing? 8 9 See . ‘To date, the United States has provided Israel $150 billion (current, or noninflationadjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding. At present, almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance; from 1971 to 2007, Israel also received significant […]