1. F.S. Northedge: ‘Britain as a second-rank power’, IA 46/1 (January 1970), p. 38.
2. For a discussion, see Beatrice Heuser: NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949–2000 (London: Macmillan, 1997), Ch. 3.
3. See A.J.R. Groom: British Thinking about Nuclear Weapons (London: Pinter, 1974) and Prof. David Yost: ‘Strategic Policy Implications of British Views on the Defense of Western Europe, 1945–1976’, (Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1976).
4. F.S. Northedge: The Troubled Giant (London: Bell, 1966), p. 620.
5. Kantorowicz’s Spirit of British Policy, cited in Harold Nicolson: Diplomacy (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), pp. 138–9.