This article highlights the until quite recently neglected political-economic thinking in matters of defense in twentieth-century Britain. It argues that retrieving such analyses from the interwar years is an excellent although partial way to get at an alternative picture of interwar defense...

Britain is not an independent nuclear power. Its nuclear warheads and delivery systems depend upon American supplied management and technology and have done so since the dawn of the nuclear age. For years these matters were classified and today both governments only supply partial information....

This article investigates the case of Nanoquest, a small diversification project that was tied to BAE Systems’ earlier incarnation as British Aerospace (BAe). I show that British military firms can have success when diversifying into civilian markets, but the process can be sabotaged by...

Provides an introduction to the symposium on Palestine

The article addresses the U.K. government’s arms export licensing process to try to account for the discrepancy between its rhetoric of responsibility and practice of ongoing controversial exports. I describe the government’s licensing process and demonstrate how this process fails to...