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and nuclear deterrent policies that were developed after the Second World War. The atom bomb programme formally began with Air Staff Operational Requirement OR.1001 issued in August 1946, which anticipated a government decision in January 1947 to authorise research and development work on atomic weapons; the US Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) prohibited the export of atomic knowledge, even to countries

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