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Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes

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The Controlling Structure of the British Cabinet

Every Prime Minister has a small cabinet subcommittee of maybe four or five people. Winston Churchill hadn't told his own cabinet that Britain was developing a hydrogen bomb in 1951. The full cabinet wasn't aware of the decisions that were being made until they had to be told at the rush.

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