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This series includes printed literature, reports and correspondence in relation to nuclear energy and disarmament.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Plowden Papers include: engagement diaries (1947-93); a wide range of political and personal correspondence (1946-94); copies of speeches (1960-90); working papers and correspondence on Plowden's autobiography "An Industrialist in the Treasury"; a large amount of papers relating to public commitments such as atomic energy, Plowden's various committees, political groups and business interests, enquiries into the police, the review board on top salaries etc (1957-95); press cuttings and...

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The official report of Operation Crossroads, prepared under the direction of the Commander of Joint Task Force One.

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Also includes notes and a corrected copy of the commentary for film strips of "Operation Crossroads".

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Plowden Papers include: engagement diaries (1947-93); a wide range of political and personal correspondence (1946-94); copies of speeches (1960-90); working papers and correspondence on Plowden's autobiography "An Industrialist in the Treasury"; a large amount of papers relating to public commitments such as atomic energy, Plowden's various committees, political groups and business interests, enquiries into the police, the review board on top salaries etc (1957-95); press cuttings and...

Scope and Contents Comprising: "Ventilation and Heating Problems in Atomic Energy Establishments", given at a Summer General Meeting in Torquay, 17 June 1952; "The Design and Construction of a Handling and Treatment System for Liquid Radioactive Wastes", given at a Public Health Engineering Division Meeting, 12 October 1954; "The Control, Conveyance, Treatment and Disposal of Radioactive Effluents from the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston", given at a Public Health Division Meeting, 12 April...

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With correspondence.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the number of Labour peers in the House of Lords; South Africa; spending on the National Health Service; supplementary benefits; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union; nuclear testing and arms control; pensions; the possible purchase of British Leyland by the trades unions; the funding of Sadler’s Wells theatre; crime prevention; the Westland affair [share dealing irregularities involving Westland Helicopter Company]. Other correspondents include Nigel...

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Includes: report from the Intergovernmental committee set up by the Messina Conference [Italy], Apr 1956, on the Common Market and Euratom (nuclear development); Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) information sheets on economic issues and nuclear energy.

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: Cadogan's appointment as Permanent Representative of the UK Government to the United Nations; relationships with United Nations delegates and the Foreign Office; United Nations resolutions; Security Council negotiations on subjects including uses of the veto and withdrawal of troops from Syria, Lebanon, and Iran; discussions relating to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and reaction to proposals of Bernard Baruch; and comments on leisure activities,...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with United Nations committees, the British Delegation, and the Foreign Office; notes on the development of United Nations procedures and elections; the admission of new member states Yemen and Pakistan; discussions relating to United Nations Security Council resolutions and the Partition Plan for Palestine; Cadogan's attendance at working committee meetings regarding atomic energy and the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission; comments on...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with United Nations committees, the British Delegation, and the Foreign Office; notes on the development of United Nations procedures and the admission of new member states; discussions relating to United Nations Security council resolutions on Palestine and the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir [region in China, India and Pakistan]; ongoing discussions surrounding Eastern Europe; the Berlin Blockade; the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission;...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with United Nations committees, the British Delegation, especially with Barbara Castle, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's inspection of building plans and models for the new United Nations Council Chamber; notes on progress with the United Nations Atomic Energy commission, the Commission for India and Pakistan, and the Commission for Conventional Armaments; discussions relating to United Nations Security Council resolutions on Indonesia, Palestine,...

Scope and Contents Papers, press cuttings and correspondence relating to land clearance in Hong Kong and proposed changes to the Immigration laws, used by AFB as source material for his Question in the House of Lords on Hong Kong. Includes: pamphlet by Walter Easey, "Ducking Responsibility, Britain and Hong Kong in the '80s"; White Paper from the Government of Hong Kong on district administration; papers on police violence during the clearances; correspondence with 2nd Lord Denham, Government Chief Whip in...

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Notes of meetings (mainly in shorthand), including a meeting with or on British Nuclear Fuels plc.

Scope and Contents Includes copy of a handwritten letter by MT to "Jubie" [Colonel Claude Granville Lancaster] relating to energy, 30 October 1975 Includes correspondence with 1st Lord ("Toby") Aldington, Tony Benn MP, Leslie Grainger (National Coal Board) Professor John Harold Horlock, Sally Oppenheim MP, John Sparrow and Sir Arnold Weinstock Also includes correspondence with Sir Brian Flowers after he forwarded a copy of a report by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution,...

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Photographs from GK's visit as Minister of State for Industry.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Plowden Papers include: engagement diaries (1947-93); a wide range of political and personal correspondence (1946-94); copies of speeches (1960-90); working papers and correspondence on Plowden's autobiography "An Industrialist in the Treasury"; a large amount of papers relating to public commitments such as atomic energy, Plowden's various committees, political groups and business interests, enquiries into the police, the review board on top salaries etc (1957-95); press cuttings and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Plowden Papers include: engagement diaries (1947-93); a wide range of political and personal correspondence (1946-94); copies of speeches (1960-90); working papers and correspondence on Plowden's autobiography "An Industrialist in the Treasury"; a large amount of papers relating to public commitments such as atomic energy, Plowden's various committees, political groups and business interests, enquiries into the police, the review board on top salaries etc (1957-95); press cuttings and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Probably the most interesting items in the Haldane papers are the very detailed and informative journals Haldane kept during his tours of the power installations of Russia, Sweden and America in the nineteen thirties and of New Zealand in the nineteen fifties. The collection also contains many articles on electrical power by Haldane together with notes and drafts of talks and lectures. There is also very interesting correspondence with Sir John Cockcroft and Dr. Monty Finniston about atomic...

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Includes: press cuttings of articles on NK from the Guardian; correspondence with Guardian journalists, including a letter from Jack Ashley, complaining about an attack on NK, and a suggestion for a biography of NK; briefings for interviews; press releases, including a summary of Labour’s position on nuclear power; a press pack for "Labour, putting people first", part of the Freedom and Fairness campaign (1986); text of an article by NK on Nicaragua.

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Papers relating to wartime nuclear research.

Scope and Contents Includes two copies of Lord Hinton's unpublished memoirs covering his life and career from 1901-70; lectures and talks, 1950s & 1960s; and planning and progress charts for the United Kingdom's atomic energy programme, 1946-54, with an interesting and informative covering letter by Hinton dated April 1982. The bulk of the material concerns Hinton's involvement with the development of nuclear energy in UK, but there are also papers and lectures relating to his report for the...

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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.

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Papers relating to research in radar, atomic energy and guided weapons