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Harold Macmillan, Part 4: Pressing the Button
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How would Harold Macmillan have ordered nuclear retaliation?
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The books and articles I used in this episode are listed below:
The Secret State by Peter Hennessy
Winds of Change by Peter Hennessy
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
Cabinet by Peter Hennessy
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by D.R. Thorpe
Planning Armageddon: Britain, the United States and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-1964, by Len Scott, Robert Twigge et al.
'A Matter of Joint Decision': The Origins of British Nuclear Retaliation Procedures and the Murphy-Dean Agreement of 1958, by Matthew Jones in the English Historical Review
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