Nuclear disarmament
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
"All Things Considered": NK interview on American National Public Radio, 1987-02
Subjects including the timing of the General Election, the withdrawal of nuclear Cruise missiles from Britain and the right wing in both the United States and Britain.
American meetings, 1988-01 - 1989-11
Arms control, 1988-02 - 1989-02
Includes: extract from a transcript of NK’s interview for This Week on Labour’s defence policy and shift away from unilateralism; briefing and draft article on responses to Soviet initiatives on arms control; memorandum from Jeremy Bray [science and technology spokesman] on arms reduction and control.
BBC Panorama: Labour Defence, 1987-06
NK interview rushes nos 28 and 29 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.
BBC Panorama: Labour Defence, 1987-06
NK interview rush no 30 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.
BBC Radio 2: Jimmy Young interview with NK , 1989
Subjects include: Labour's policy on privatisation and re-nationalisation; relations with the trades unions and the dock workers' dispute; defence policy and nuclear disarmament; plans for income tax levels and National Insurance under a Labour government.
BBC Radio 4, Today programme: John Humphrys interviews NK, 1989-04-06
Interview on NK's upcoming meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, relations with the Soviet Union and nuclear disarmament.
BBC World Service, People in Politics and BBC Radio 4, Newsnight: interviews with NK, 1989-03
Subjects (in the People in Politics interview) include: NK's view of Margaret Thatcher; socialism and the free market; the future of Europe; nuclear disarmament.
Subjects in the Newsnight interview include: NK's view of Margaret Thatcher's legacy and character; the failure of the opposition parties; the view of Thatcher within the Conservative Party.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, CND, 1981-11 - 1983-08
Includes: National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) peace pack; Just Defence briefing papers by Frank Barnaby and Stan Windass; information sheets on nuclear warfare; Greater London Council paper on civil defence in London; correspondence with the general public on Labour’s opposition to nuclear warfare.
Children’s Newspaper Interview, 1987-08
Interview with NK on subjects including children having the vote and nuclear defence.
Defence policy, 1984-05 - 1986-10
Collected interviews, statements and speeches by NK on subjects including: unilateralism and the cost of conventional forces; international relations; disarmament; nuclear protection from the United States and the removal of American bases from Britain. Includes an interview with Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense, on Labour’s anti-nuclear policy, interviews by NK with Peter Jay and David Frost and an extract from NK’s 1985 Conference speech.
Defence policy, 1985-03 - 1987-07
Defence policy, 1985-11 - 1987-11
Defence policy, 1987-12 - 1989-04
Includes: press-cuttings; briefing for press questions [following NK’s meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, Apr 1989]; text of an article by NK for the Times [1989]; research note on replacing the Chieftain tank; notes on Labour’s approach to defence policy and nuclear disarmament; transcript of NK’s This Week Next Week interview on disarmament, June 1988; press statements on the nuclear disarmament negotiations; note on defence in Labour’s Policy Reviews.
Defence policy, 1987-12 - 1990-02
Defence policy, 1991-10 - 1991-12
Statements and correspondence between NK, Martin O’Neill, defence spokesman, Tom King, Secretary of State for defence, and Cecil Franks, MP for Barrow, over the future of the Trident nuclear submarine programme, based at the VSEL shipyard in Barrow [Cumbria].
Defence policy, 1992-02
Includes: note by Martin O’Neill, defence spokesman, on what Labour’s first Statement on Defence Estimates should contain once in Labour was in government, and other defence issues which should be addressed as early in the Parliament as possible; briefing for an interview with David Frost on defence policy, particularly the Trident nuclear submarine programme; extract from NK’s speech to the Welsh Party Conference, 1989, on nuclear disarmament; extracts from Hansard.
Foreign Press Association: correspondence, 1983-11 - 1985-05
Includes text of NK’s speech to a Foreign Press Association lunch, on disarmament and the international economy, 1983.
Hemsworth and Langbaurgh by-elections, 1991-10-02
Side 1 consists of short press interviews with NK on nuclear disarmament following arms reduction talks between the United States and Soviet Union, and NK speaking at a by-election campaign meeting at Hemsworth [Yorkshire].
Side 2 consists of NK speaking to the press during the by-election campaign in Langbaurgh [Yorkshire], particularly on economic issues and the mining industry.
Interview with NK [? for the Sunday Mirror], 1988-08
Subjects interview include: Labour’s attitude to success and the individual; nuclear disarmament; divisions within Labour and the Conservatives; accountability within the party; combining economic policy with social needs; misrepresentation of Labour in the press; relations with the unions.
Before the main interview there are audio notes by NK on strategy for attacking Conservative economic policy.
ITN News: NK Defence Reaction, 1986-12
Public responses to Labour’s defence policy.
Labour Party Conference: Monday, 1989-10-02
BBC Radio 4 World at One report, on conference votes over the Policy Review, relating to Labour's economic policy, nuclear energy and particularly the forthcoming defence debate. Also includes an interview with John Prescott, Labour transport spokesman, on being elected to the National Executive Committee and the Policy Review.
Labour Party: Modern Britain in a Modern World, 1986-12-10
Launch of Labour's campaign on foreign and defence policy, with statements by NK, [David] Denzil Davies [chief opposition spokesman on defence and disarmament] and Denis Healey [opposition spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs] and questions from the audience.
Labour Party Political Broadcast: "Defence Policy - The Choice", 1986-12-03
Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.
Leader’s Reception: Birmingham, "Labour Listens", 1988-08
Questions answered by NK on subjects including: relations with the party membership; reaching ethnic minorities in Birmingham; combating the hard Left and Militant; non-nuclear defence and arms reduction; reasons for the loss of the 1987 General Election.
Also includes excerpts from a press conference, mainly on funding for health services.