Britain arms control

Walker,J. [ohn], Britain and Disarmament The UK and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Arms Control and Programmes, igs6—ig7S (Farnham, Ashgate, 2012). 

Healey, Time of My Life, pp. 193-4, 198-9, 224-48, 252 Broadbent, Military and Government, p. 30. Broadbent was Healey s private secretary. For the development of the Ministry of Defence, see Peter Nailor, The Ministry of Defence, 1959-70 , in P. Smith (ed.). Government and the Armed Forces, pp. 9-248, and Adrian Smith, Command and control in postwar Britain defence decision-making in the United Kingdom, 1945—1984 , Twentieth Century British History, 2 (1991), 291-327. 

Despite the efforts by America and other countries to abide by treaties and control the proliferation of nuclear arms, nine countries are known to possess atomic weapons. In addition to America and Russia, the other nuclear-armed states are Great Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, China, and North Korea. Of those states, diplomats find a nuclear-armed North Korea most alarming because the country is ruled by a Communist dictatorship that has maintained unfriendly terms with the West for more than sixty years. 

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