Talk:1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement
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[edit] Notes for a Future Exapnsion
Typing up some of the criteria for my dissertation, thought I'd dump them here for a latter date --Pickle 10:23, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
The criterion to qualify for this was, in effect, written specifically for Britain, the nation had to have made; “substantial progress in the development of atomic weapons” and where improvements could be made to the existing “atomic weapons design, development and fabrication capability”
Source - US Public Law No. 85-479, 85th Congress, 2nd session quoted in Pierre, Andrew J "Nuclear Politics : The British Experience With An Independent Strategic Force, 1939-1970" 1972, p141
“The cooperating nation must have achieved considerably more than a mere theoretical knowledge of atomic weapons design, or testing of a limited number of nuclear weapons. It is intended that the cooperating nation must have achieved a capability of its own in fabricating a variety of atomic weapons, and constructed weapons manufacturing faculties, a weapons testing station and trained personal to operate each of these facilities”.
Source - Senate report 1654, House Report 1859, 85th Congress, 2nd session quoted in Pierre, Andrew J "Nuclear Politics : The British Experience With An Independent Strategic Force, 1939-1970" 1972, p141
