Strath Committee

The Strath Committee was set up by the

British Ministry of Defence to consider the implications of thermonuclear weapons for the United Kingdom.^[1]

The Strath Report, issued in 1955, and finally declassified in 2002, estimated the type of damage and casualties

industry would be destroyed, logistics and distribution systems would break down, and food and water

would be contaminated, leaving the 40 million survivors in "siege conditions."

"The Report found it impossible to predict whether Britain could recover with the social and economic fabric of the country destroyed - in even such a limited attack."

The Committee's Report was discussed in a DEFE (Chiefs of Staff, Ministry of Defence) paper entitled "An Appreciation of the Likely Form and Duration of a Future Major War: With Reference to the Problem of Stockpiling in the United Kingdom" (DEFE 5/80, COS (57) 278, 18 Dec 1957).

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[1] ISBN 0-19-828012-2
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