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Polaris

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

2Records
1962–1963Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1962

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st21 December 1962

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

The USA agrees to sell Polaris to Britain

1963

Maurice Harold Macmillan Stockton, 1st1963

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Macmillan presents Polaris as the successor to Skybolt and as protection for Britain's independent nuclear role

Names involved

Maurice Harold Macmillan Stockton, 1stMaurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st

Provenance

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