bob10
1st June 2021, 12:34 PM
PM Macmillan wanted to stay in the " nuclear club", Dean Rusk was worried the UK would " move in on our independence". The reality was the Brits wanted the bomb as a deterrent to Russia in Europe.
From the National Security Archives.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/99-1156.tif_.jpg (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/99-1156.tif_.jpg)
Lewis L. Strauss, shown when he was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission during 1946-1950, would become chairman of the AEC during the Eisenhower administration, from 1953 to 1958. After a meeting with British experts in October 1957 [see Document 2], he declared that the U.K. should get out of the nuclear weapons business, a sentiment that was shared by senior State Department officials during the Kennedy administration. (Photo from Harry S. Truman Presidential Library)
The British Bomb and the United States - Part One | National Security Archive (gwu.edu) (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2021-05-13/british-bomb-united-states-part-one?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=7f1fd77f-f36f-4294-96dd-790e327cb606)
From the National Security Archives.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/99-1156.tif_.jpg (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/99-1156.tif_.jpg)
Lewis L. Strauss, shown when he was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission during 1946-1950, would become chairman of the AEC during the Eisenhower administration, from 1953 to 1958. After a meeting with British experts in October 1957 [see Document 2], he declared that the U.K. should get out of the nuclear weapons business, a sentiment that was shared by senior State Department officials during the Kennedy administration. (Photo from Harry S. Truman Presidential Library)
The British Bomb and the United States - Part One | National Security Archive (gwu.edu) (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2021-05-13/british-bomb-united-states-part-one?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=7f1fd77f-f36f-4294-96dd-790e327cb606)