Description

The book reviews some of the technical, political and financial influences which shaped the air defences of the United Kingdom during the early years of the Cold War.

The fifteen years, or so, covered in this book were particularly difficult for the planners of the air defence of the United Kingdom. Initially, from 1949 until late in 1953, the planners had to rely upon refurbished wartime radars for the R.A.F. Control and Reporting System. Our defence capability was thus extremely fragile at a time when the Russians were blockading Berlin, had successfully tested their first nuclear bomb and had large quantities of Land, Air and Naval forces remaining from the Second World War.