The Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London is holding a nuclear history conference online in July 2020. Academics, veterans of Britain’s nuclear programmes and other researchers from around the world will come together for informal discussions of nuclear history.
Jonathan Aylen and Brian Burnell will talk about British naval nuclear weapons.
Jonathan is President of the Newcomen Society and a research fellow at the Manchester Business School, and his presentation will cover the introduction into service of Navy’s first nuclear weapon, the Red Beard free-fall bomb.
Brian, an independent researcher, will present new findings on naval nuclear weapons in the 1980s including Operation Perfidious, the Navy’s plan to get nuclear weapons to sea quickly in a period of international tension.
Photo caption: Royal Navy Buccaneer nuclear strike aircraft (photo courtesy of San Diego Air and Space Museum/out of copyright).
