Nuclear warfare
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:
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General correspondence To-Ty, 1976 - 1988
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRTN 5/2/2/29
Scope and Contents
Correspondents, mainly inviting PC to various events, include: David Tonkin [former Premier of South Australia] on his own election defeat and sympathy with PC over his resignation as Foreign Secretary (2); Sir Douglas Morpeth, Senior Partner, Touche Ross and Company; Cyril Townsend; Kenneth Durham, Chairman of the Trade Policy Research Centre, on subjects including calling a meeting to amend the GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ministerial talks of November 1982 (2), also...
Dates:
1976 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence U, 1983 - 1988
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRTN 5/2/2/30
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John Seiberling, United States Congress, on an article (enclosed) by Robert McNamara, former American Defense Secretary, on the military role of nuclear weapons, 1983, particularly on the first use option.
Dates:
1983 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence Z, 1977 - 1988
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRTN 5/2/2/36
Scope and Contents
Correspondents, mainly inviting PC to various events, include: [Frank] Stephen Miles, British High Commissioner, Zambia, on problems in Zambia for RTZ [earlier Rio Tinto-Zinc] Corporation and the success of the tour of Africa by David Owen, Foreign Secretary; General [Muhammad] Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, on the signing of the Geneva Accord on Afghanistan, and his thanks to PC for his support; Philip Ziegler, Collins Publishers (2); Lord Zuckerman on the lack of progress in defence...
Dates:
1977 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Invitations, events and related correspondence, 2002 - 2011
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRTN 15/14
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: David Cameron, Prime Minister, thanking PC for his work in 2011 and on Conservative successes, keeping the coalition Government together and looking ahead to 2012; Veldes, Lady Raison, thanking PC for his sympathy on the death of Sir Timothy Raison; Stanley Johnson, thanking PC for opening an Exmoor footbridge; Nancy Reagan on the unveiling of a statue of Ronald Reagan in Grosvenor Square, London, and a banquet to mark the centennial of his birth, 2011; General Lord...
Dates:
2002 - 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Korea", 05 Jul 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/36A/114-133
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on debating the Korean crisis, the lack of information given to Parliament, Communist propaganda, British and Commonwealth support for the United States's intervention, Conservative support for the Government's position on the crisis, accusations of Conservative war-mongering, the protection of Western Europe by the nuclear deterrent, the increasing production of atom bombs by the Soviet Union, and the need for settlement with the Soviet Union...
Dates:
05 Jul 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Co-operation Publishing Company: business correspondence., 27 Jul 1945 - 19 Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/721
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], head of Co-operation (10), on subjects including collaborating with Reves over offers for WSC to publish newspaper and magazine articles, war memoirs, and make radio broadcasts in the United States; and Reves' book on the atomic bomb, "The Anatomy of Peace".
Dates:
27 Jul 1945 - 19 Dec 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), C-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/19A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] on the atomic bomb; R V Jones; Sir Laurence Collier [British Ambassador to Norway]; William Deakin (12); Ian Colvin (4) including (2) on his book on [General Paul] von Kleist; Robert Sherwood; Sir Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] (2); Sir Stafford Cripps sending on extracts from his diary for summer 1939; [George Gordon] Allen (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (3) including (2) on sending draft chapters to...
Dates:
Jun 1946 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "The Second World War": preface for the abridged [one-volume] edition [eventually incorporated into the published version as "An Epilogue on the Years 1945 to 1957"] covering WSC's speeches at Fulton [United States] (March 1946) and Zurich [Switzerland] (September 1946), tensions with the Soviet Union, the founding of NATO, the Berlin [Germany] blockade, the European Movement, the atomic bomb, Stalin's death, Indian independence, the Korean War, the creation of Israel, and the United Nations., Feb 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/400A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes proofs, drafts, corrections, and notes annotated by "A H" [Alan Hodge], ?[William Deakin], "A M B" [Anthony Montague Browne], WSC, "D K" [Denis Kelly], and Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], and file covers [added by Martin Gilbert].
Dates:
Feb 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: The Second World War, Volume 4 "The Hinge of Fate", Appendices., Oct 1947 - Nov 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/297A-F
Scope and Contents
Include typescript and galley proofs of the appendices to Volume 4 including: Appendix A "List of abbreviations"; Appendix B "List of codenames"; Appendix C "Prime Minister's Personal Minutes, January 1942-May 1943"; Appendix D "Singapore defences, memorandum by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall"; Appendix E "Monthly total of shipping losses for 1942, British Allied and neutral"; Appendix F "Promises about post-war conditions. The Beveridge Report" (on the report by William Beveridge);...
Dates:
Oct 1947 - Nov 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: The Second World War, Volume 4 "The Hinge of Fate", Various material., Feb 1942 - Oct 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/298
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence on corrections to be made to Volume 4 of "The Second World War" from individuals including: Denis Kelly (5); Charles Wood; WSC on a reference to [?Reginald] Dorman Smith; Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet]; 1st Lord Ismay on the need to amend a reference to Gandhi taking glucose during his fast; the Visconde de Meirelles on the use of 'neutral' planes during the war; [George] Gordon Allen; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (2);...
Dates:
Feb 1942 - Oct 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: typescript proofs and draft copies [some annotated by WSC] of WSC's article entitled "One Way to Stop a Third World War"., 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/71
Scope and Contents
First published in Collier's magazine, on the aftermath of World War II, the roles of France, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union with regard to Europe, the United Nations, the need for a Council of Europe, and the atomic bomb.
Dates:
1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Local election campaign: visit to Derby, and BBC World Service "People and Politics" interview with NK, 1991-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/160
Scope and Contents
Side 1: NK speaking on social policy and private and public sector social care provision (in which his voice is slightly muffled); press interviews from NK’s visit to Derby during the local election campaign, on BREL (British Rail Engineering Ltd, Derby), local taxation and the Council Tax.Side 2: Labour Party recording of an interview with NK for the BBC World Service (see KNNK 26/2/157 for the BBC version) on the latest Labour policy review document, "Opportunity Britain". ...
Dates:
1991-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Access copies available.
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Nagasaki, 1945-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDSN 3/3
Scope and Contents
Scenes of devastation following the atomic bomb in Japan.
Dates:
1945-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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'No First Use': Report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 1982 - 1983
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 1/2/37
Scope and Contents
Also includes correspondence.
Dates:
1982 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes on 'The Nuclear Issue', 1983
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 1/2/39
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The material at Churchill Archives Centre begins with Lord Gladwyn's school and college notebooks, and runs to his final articles, but with the exception of his personal and family correspondence, was chiefly created after Lord Gladwyn's retirement from the Diplomatic Service. A large proportion of the papers consists of notes, reports, articles, speeches and correspondence amassed from Lord Gladwyn's work as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords and Liberal spokesman...
Dates:
1983
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Nuclear Deterrent: general correspondence, 1982-10 - 1987-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/42
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with the general public on arms control and nuclear policy, particularly relating to articles, interviews and speeches by JEP [7 June 1987, to the Defence Information Group, 29 October 1982, to the Brunel Society, and 6 March 1967, House of Commons]. Correspondents include: Harold Braham; Sir Rudolf Peierls; Michael Nicholson; Oliver Postgate (4); Adam Butler, Minister of State for Defence Procurement, on answering enquiries about exposure to radiation from nuclear testing in...
Dates:
1982-10 - 1987-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Nuclear Deterrent: speech, 7 June 1987, 1987-05 - 1988-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/41
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on arms control, particularly on JEP's speech, including: press cuttings on British and NATO nuclear policy; letter from [Ronald] Timothy Renton, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with a summary paper on Britain's involvement in arms control; note from Sir Robin Day, with transcript of his election interview with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on subjects including arms policy; draft copy of JEP's speech, to the Defence Information Group...
Dates:
1987-05 - 1988-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Official: Prime Minister: correspondence between WSC and President Dwight D Eisenhower [President of the United States]., 29 Jan 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A-C
Scope and Contents
ff 1- 139 are copies of letters and telegrams from WSC to President Dwight D Eisenhower, 07 Feb 1953 - 31 Mar 1955.ff 140 - 214 are copies of letters from President Dwight D Eisenhower to WSC, 02 Feb1953 - 29 Mar 1955.ff 215 - 282 are copies of correspondence between WSC and President Dwight D Eisenhower, 29 Jan 1953 - 24 Mar 1955. Includes original letters from Dwight D Eisenhower, James D Moffett (2nd Secretary, United States Embassy in Britain) and Winthrop Aldrich (United States...
Dates:
29 Jan 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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"Perils abroad and at home", 09 Oct 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/21A/1-68
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (Annual Conservative Party Conference, Llandudno, Wales) entitled "Perils abroad and at home" on subjects including: the recovery of the Conservative Party since 1945; the part played by Wales in British affairs; relations with the Soviet Union and the likelihood of a third world war; the degeneration of the United Nations; the importance of nuclear weapons belonging to the United States in countering the threat posed by the Soviet Union; the importance of...
Dates:
09 Oct 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political and other papers: SALT II talks, 1979-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/10/13
Scope and Contents
American press releases on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the United States and Soviet Union, including the text of the treaty and the address to Congress by President Jimmy Carter.
Dates:
1979-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, P - S., 16 Oct 1953 - 18 Jan 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/88
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (5); John Johnston, Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies; [Walter] Leonard Allinson [Assistant Private Secretary to the Ministry of Education] (4); [Margaret] Barbara Sloman [Principal], Treasury (2); Richard Griffiths, Exchange Control, Bank of England; I H Slee, Private Secretary, War Damage Commission (6); E F Reed and Gladys Reed, constituents...
Dates:
16 Oct 1953 - 18 Jan 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Defence., 06 Nov 1936 - 20 Jan 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/371A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on defence issues include: Sir Thomas Inskip [Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, later 1st Lord Caldecote]; Harry Sellar, Private Secretary to Inskip (2); Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on subjects including the arming of the Guards Battalions; Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, on showing WSC [air construction graphs]; 1st Lord Swinton [former Secretary of State for Air, earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister and Philip Lloyd-Greame] on the formation...
Dates:
06 Nov 1936 - 20 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-B., May 1948 - Feb 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/80
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Abdullah [ibn Hussein], King of Jordan [earlier Transjordan], (2) and Edward Tomkins (Foreign Office) on a visit to the United Kingdom by Abdullah; Dean Acheson [Secretary of State, United States] on WSC's visit to the United States; Sir Richard Acland and Donald Bruce [later Lord Bruce of Donnington, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of Health] forewarning WSC of criticism in the House of Commons; Konrad Adenauer [Federal Chancellor of Germany] on WSC's...
Dates:
May 1948 - Feb 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political; Correspondence A-B., Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/94
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg]; Waris Ameer Ali on Indo-Pakistani affairs; Leo Amery (4); Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] (3) including 2 on his personal plans; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party, on Lady Megan Lloyd George; Nigel Colman, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; James Harden on being re-elected...
Dates:
Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence, A-B., Feb 1955 - Sep 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/506
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [2nd Lord] Jellicoe, First Lord of the Admiralty (2) for the Commissioners for executing the office of the Lord High Admiral with thanks for their message from WSC; R A Butler, Deputy Prime Minister and Alexander Douglas Home [later Lord Home of the Hirsel], Prime Minister on the publication of correspondence between WSC and President Roosevelt; Julian Amery; David Anderson, M P for Dumfries [Scotland]; John Arbuthnot, M P for Dover [Kent] regarding a Conservative...
Dates:
Feb 1955 - Sep 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open