Nuclear weapons and disarmament

Title

Nuclear weapons and disarmament

Shelfmark

MS. Callaghan 232

Summary

Comprises:

Correspondence, notes, press cuttings and speeches regarding Labour policy on nuclear weapons and disarmament, and regarding relations with the USSR and the Eastern bloc. Also includes reprint of article Regionalism as Geopolitics by Peter Jay, and Chatham House Paper Congress and American Foreign Policy by Godfrey Hodgson. 1979-1983

Notes and correspondence regarding nuclear disarmament, including notes on a meeting between Callaghan, [Georgy] Arbatov and Viktor Falin, notes on a meeting between Callaghan and Andrei Gromkyo, and notes and correspondence regarding the Geneva Summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. 1982-1985

Papers regarding nuclear weapons, including article Surviving a Protest by Michael Howard, transcript of speech Against Nuclear Arms and War by Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and notes on the Polaris nuclear programme. 1980

Minutes and agenda for meetings of the Labour Defence and Disarmament Group. 1984

Correspondence regarding nuclear disarmament. Also includes chronology of arms control, Papers relating to Callaghan's 1980 visit to the United States, and press cuttings regarding the relationship between the US and NATO. 1979-1981, 1986

Correspondence regarding Callaghan's speech on nuclear disarmament given at the 1983 Labour Party Conference. 1983

Date

1979-1986

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)