Andrew Corbett, author of Supreme Emergency: How Britain Lives With the Bomb, joins the show to talk about what it’s like commanding one of Her Majesty’s deadliest weapons, how deterrence policy actually works, and why Britain has the Bomb.▪️Times • 01:45 Introduction• 02:12 Why Join The Royal Navy?• 03:31 What’s In A Name?• 05:31 Day To Day Life • 10:33 Disorienting Conditions • 12:35 The Fighting Sub• 16:58 The Sound Of Silence • 21:50 The Nuclear Triad• 24:12 Developments Under The Sea• 26:05 The British And The Bomb• 30:12 Command By Sub-Committee• 32:23 Extreme Secrecy • 37:35 Morality In Nuclear Weapons • 45:04 Why Should The UK Have Nukes• 50:07 Who Shouldn’t Have Nukes • 54:46 Extended Deterrence
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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, o...