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Operation Lamachus: the Holy Loch US Nuclear Base and the Dangers of Local Radiation Pollution
Alan P. Dobson
29 - 39
10.3233/978-1-58603-967-7-29
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics
Volume 51: Military Bases: Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Challenges
Abstract

On 1 November 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that the British Government would provide land on the Holy Loch in Scotland for the USA to establish facilities for Polaris nuclear submarines. The base brought more security for the West as a whole, but it also posed dangers for the Holy Loch area. One of those dangers was the threat to the local population from radiation pollution from the submarine nuclear propulsion systems. The main focus of this paper is how those dangers and actual pollution incidents were handled by British officialdom.

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