Scope and Contents Includes: text of a party political broadcast for BBC Radio 4; speech for the launch of Labour’s environmental policy document, "An Earthly Chance"; speech for a debate on the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM); speech for a debate on Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; response to a Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe statement on the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and the end of the Cold War; speech to the NATO assembly; speech to the Confederation of European...

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Labour Party video on a non-nuclear defence policy (programme breaks then restarts).

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Rotblat’s personal archive includes working papers, notebooks, correspondence, lectures and photographs and documents his scientific career (including his research in atomic physics at the University of Liverpool and medical physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital) and the Pugwash organisation and conferences. There is a separate section covering Rotblat’s involvement with various societies and organisations. The remainder of the collection is still being catalogued and remains closed.

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Papers comprising laboratory notebooks, articles, lectures, correspondence and photographs.
Also includes records of the Kapitza Club, 1922-58 and 1966, and copy papers of the Maud Committee, 1940-1.
With offprints of papers by Ernest Rutherford, 1872-1913.

Scope and Contents The first minute or so of side 1 is from the end of NK's Interview on the Jimmy Young Programme, 13 April 1989. The majority of side 1 consists of a discussion (with some background restaurant noise) and press interviews on subjects including: manufacturing industry; the state of the coal industry; the dock workers' dispute; the disparity between the South East and the rest of the country; investment in railway development; policy on Europe.Side 2 is the majority of NK's Jimmy...

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Subjects include: defence policy and nuclear disarmament; Europe; economic policy; trades union funding; NK's leadership; Labour Party reform; the Miners' Strike; Black Sections.

Scope and Contents Comprising typescript and handwritten drafts of material for pamphlets, newspaper articles and talks about Nuclear weapons and disarmament. These include 'Defence in the nuclear age'; 'Civilian Defence'1964; 'Pugwash and disarmament, reflections by an observer'; 'Some reflections on nuclear disarmament' 1964; 'Reflections on defence'; 'Defence Policy' [House of Lords speech, March 1966]; 'Power Politics in the nuclear age' 1962; 'Common sense in defence' 1962; 'What are we trying to defend...

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Schedule for the visit, including a briefing on race relations in Bradford, and also rough speech notes. Also includes notes for a speech by NK on nuclear disarmament [? given at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protest in London, October 1983].

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Includes: briefings for NK’s visit to the Soviet Union, particularly on defence and human rights; notes of NK’s meeting with President Konstantin Chernenko on arms reduction; speech notes; programmes and arrangements for various visits; transcript of an interview by NK for Radio Moscow; information for press.

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Correspondence and press cuttings on NK’s visit to the United States, including correspondence with Edward Koch, Mayor of New York, and with Sir Martin Ryle on nuclear disarmament, and a summary of NK’s speech to the National Press Club, Washington, on the practice of freedom. Also includes an extract from a speech by NK to the Socialist International on arms control, Nov 1983, and NK’s preface to a report by Stuart Holland and Donald Anderson on Central America, "Kissinger’s Kingdom".

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Includes: text of NK’s speech at the Kennedy School of Government, Boston, "Components of security: defence, democracy and development"; briefings on the launch of Labour’s non-nuclear defence policy; press release on a meeting of the European Socialist and Social Democratic parties of NATO on security policy (Oslo [Norway], Sept 1986); note on Labour and the ‘nuclear umbrella’.

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Programme and briefing on defence policy, including papers and press cuttings on the summit on arms control between the United States and Soviet Union at Geneva [Switzerland], 1985 and papers and press cuttings on the German Social Democratic Party, mainly relating to European defence policy. Also includes a programme for a visit to Sweden for a European conference, and arrangements for a meeting with Bill Keys, Chairman of the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee.

Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a meeting with Dick Cheney, American Secretary of Defense, on European defence, NATO and nuclear disarmament, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Dan Quayle, Vice-President of the United States, on defence and the Common Agricultural Policy; a meeting with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Soviet Union, on overseas aid, defence and disarmament; a meeting with Boutros Boutros Ghali, Secretary-General of the United...

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Interview with NK on Labour's nuclear disarmament policy.