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Cabinets and the Bomb

Our deadliest secret

Peter Hennessy
OUP for the British Academy, 356pp, £19.95,
M. R. D. Foot
Tuesday, 5th February 2008

M. R. D. Foot on Peter Hennessy's latest work

This book shows how successive cabinets have handled the deadliest secret of modern times, what to do about nuclear bombs, since the first ones went off in 1945. As the subject was so secret, not much has ever been allowed out into the public domain; but Hennessy’s scholarly skills have been such that he has unearthed all of that, and here lays it out in scores of documents in facsimile. This gives the reader an engaging sense of being himself involved in actual research; and his commentaries illuminate each paper.

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John Ingersoll

April 3rd, 2008 9:31pm

Dear Friends,
Does anyone know M.R.D. Foot's email address? I was a student of his at the University of Manchester in 1967-68. Many thanks.
John Ingersoll, Atlanta, Georgia

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