Lorna Arnold

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Lorna Arnold is a historian who has written a number of books connected with the British nuclear weapons programmes.

As the second official historian of the British nuclear weapons programmes, she has had access to previously secret documents and personally knew many of the people involved.

As of early 2007, she is 91 years old, nearly blind, and still writing.

[edit] Published works

• (1974). Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945-52: Volume 1: Policy Making. (With Margaret Gowing). London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-15781-8.
• (1974). Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945-52: Volume 2: Policy Execution. (With Margaret Gowing). London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-16695-7.
• (1987). A Very Special Relationship: British Atomic Weapon Trials in Australia. London: HMSO Books. ISBN 0-11-772412-2.
• Britain and the H-bomb
• Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath (International Papers in Political Economy) (with Mark Smith)
• Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

[edit] External links

• Article in New Statesman on Lorna Arnold and her work [1]
• Article by Lorna Arnold reflecting on the Windscale fire [2]