Defence Briefs

Title

Defence Briefs

Shelfmark

CRD/B/7/5-14

Summary

Comprises:

1. CRD/B/7/5 - Defence briefs, 1980-1981:

PDC(80)1 The role of nuclear weapons in Britain's Defence Policy, 21/01/1980 [Author: CPAJ/KJD]

PDC(80)2 Statement on the Defence Estimates 1980 [Cmnd. 7826], 24/04/1980 [Author: CPAJ/FJVB]

PDC(80)3 The Services Debates, 17/06/1980 [Author: CPAJ/FJVB]

PDC(81)1 The British strategic nuclear deterrent, 25/02/1981 [Author: CPAJ/FJVB]

PDC(81)2 Statement on the Defence Estimates 1981, 14/05/1981 [Author: RT/CDB]

PDC(81)3 The Defence Programme, 02/07/1981 [Author: RT/CDB]

2. CRD/B/7/6 - Defence briefs, 1982. Briefs include:

PDC(82)1 Defence, 10/02/1982 [Author: RT/CDB]

PDC(82)2 The Trident II Decision, 22/03/1982 [Author: RT/CDB]

PDC(82)3 Mass Lobby on Disarmament: Tuesday 27th April 1982, 22/04/1982 [Author: SH/DM]

PDC(82)4 Statement on the Defence Estimates, 25/06/1982 [Author: RT/CDB]

PDC(82)5 Defence. A brief for the debate on the White Paper "The Falklands Campaign: The Lessons" (Cmnd. 8758) on Tuesday 21st December 1982, 17/12/1982 [Author: Robin Turner]

Briefing Pack: Deterrence and Disarmament, January 1982

3. CRD/B/7/7 - Defence briefs, 1983. Briefs include:

DEF(83)1 Defence and Disarmament [House of Lords Debate, 16th February 1983], 10/02/1983 [Author: Robin Turner/CDB]

DEF(83)2 Disarmament [House of Commons Debate, 10th-11th May 1983], 05/05/1983 [Author: Robin Turner/RDO]

DEF(83)3 Debate on the Defence White Paper [Cmnd. 8951], House of Commons, 19th-20th July 1983, 14/07/1983 [Author: Robin Turner/RDO]

DEF(83)4 Debate on the 1979 double decision on Intermediate Range nuclear forces in the House of Commons, 31st October 1983, 26/10/1983 [Author: Robin Turner]

4. CRD/B/7/8 - Defence briefs, 1984. Briefs include:

DEF(84)1 Royal Ordnance Factories, 09/01/1984 [Author: Robin Turner/PC]

DEF(84)2 Cruise Missiles, 17/05/1984 [Author: Robin Turner]

DEF(84)3 1984 Defence White Paper, 07/06/1984 [Author: Robin Turner/PAC]

DEF(84)4R Trident - A brief for the CND lobby on Wednesday 18th July 1984, 12/07/1984 [Author: Robin Turner/PAC]

5. CRD/B/7/9 - Defence briefs, 1985. Briefs include:

DEF(85)1R [Vacant; a copy of this brief, 'Disarmament and Arms Control, 11/01/1985, Author: Robin Turner/JR, can be found in shelfmark: CRD/L/4/56/20: Letter book of Robin Turner, Jan-Jun 1985]

DEF(85)2R Trident, 08/02/1985 [Author: Robin Turner/JR]

DEF(85)3 The Sinking of the General Belgrano, 13/02/1985 [Author: Robin Turner/JR]

DEF(85)4R Relations with the Soviet Union, 06/03/1985 [Author: Robin Turner/JR]

DEF(85)5R The Strategic Defence Initiative (Starwars), 21/03/1985 [Author: Robin Turner/JR]

DEF(85)6 The 1985 Defence White Paper, 06/06/1985 [Author: Robin Turner/JR]

DEF(85)7 Dockyard Services Bill, 26/11/1985 [Author: Robin Turner/JD]

6. CRD/B/7/10 - Defence briefs, 1986. Briefs include:

DEF(86)1R The Strategic Defence Initiative, 27/01/1986 [Author: RT/JD]

DEF(86)2 The Strategic Defence Initiative, 14/02/1986 [Author: RT/JD]

DEF(86)3 Dockyard Services Bill, 11/04/1986, [Author: RT/JD]

DEF(86)4 Brief for Foreign Affairs Debate 18th June 1986 [Topics covered:- Defence Spending, the Army, the RAF, the Royal Navy, the Reserves, Trident, the East-West Military Balance, Chemical Weapons, Labour Defence Policy, SDP/Liberal Defence Policy], 13/06/1986, [Author: RT/JD]

DEF(86)5 To call attention to the present state of the nation's defence capability and to the case for retaining nuclear deterrent, 24/11/1986, [Author: KRS/SLER]

DEF(86)6 Background note on Britain Arms Control Policy following the Reykjavik Summit, 28/11/1986 [Author: Keith Simpson]

DEF(86)7 Brief for Debate in the House of Commons, 3rd December 1986 [Topics covered:- the Atlantic Alliance, independent British nuclear deterrent, Anglo-American Accord], 02/12/1986, [Author: KRS/SLER]

7. CRD/B/7/11 - Defence briefs, 1987;

8. CRD/B/7/12 - Defence briefs, 1988;

9. CRD/B/7/13 - Defence briefs, 1989;

10. CRD/B/7/14 - Defence briefs, 1990.

Date

1980-1990

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (10 folders)