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Blue Streak

Great Britain · Warfare / Nuclear. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1960Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1960

Maurice Harold Macmillan Stockton, 1st1960

London · Warfare / Nuclear

The British Government cancels Blue Streak as a land based missile system and searches for an alternative nuclear delivery system

Harold Arthur Watkinson1960

London · Warfare / Nuclear

Harold Watkinson explains the defence case for abandoning Blue Streak as an operational strategic missile

Names involved

Harold Arthur WatkinsonMaurice Harold Macmillan Stockton, 1st

Provenance

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