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Polaris Programme

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1963Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1963

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home, 14th1963

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Douglas-Home inherits the British Polaris programme after becoming Prime Minister

Peter Alexander Rupert Thorneycroft1963

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Thorneycroft oversees early British planning for Polaris submarines after the Nassau Agreement

Names involved

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home, 14thPeter Alexander Rupert Thorneycroft

Provenance

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