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In 1984 a Quaker trust funded a doctoral research program on arms conversion and the UK Defense industry at the University of Bradford’s Department of Peace Studies [1]. No such study of the UK Defense industry had been undertaken from a conversion perspective since that by the Economist Intelligence Unit in the early 1960s [2]. Yet, before Gorbachev’s accession to power in the Soviet Union, nothing looked less likely than either an end to the Cold War or disarmament. That matters turned out as they did is a graphic illustration of the need for governments to prepare for peace just as thoroughly as they prepare for war.
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Southwood, P.M. (1997). Models of Conversion. In: Dundervill, R.F., Gerity, P.F., Hyder, A.K., Luessen, L.H. (eds) Defense Conversion Strategies. NATO ASI Series, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1213-2_6
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