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Skybolt Crisis

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

2Records
1962Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1962

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home, 14th1962

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Douglas-Home handles diplomatic pressure as Britain seeks to preserve an independent nuclear deterrent

Maurice Harold Macmillan Stockton, 1st1962

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Macmillan faces a strategic crisis when the United States moves toward cancellation of Skybolt

Names involved

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home, 14thMaurice Harold Macmillan Stockton, 1st

Provenance

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