Books by John R. Walker

Looks at how successive British governments approached the subject of control and disarmament between 1956 and 1975 period, which reflects the UK's landmark decision in 1956 to abandon its offensive chemical weapons programme, and ends with the internal travails over the possible use of CR (tear gas) in Northern Ireland.

In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. Focussing on a key twenty year period, this study explores Britain's role in efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban treaty between 1954 and 1973.