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Research material relating to the arms crisis between the United States (US), Western Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Material includes: newspapers, photocopies of articles and clippings from newspapers and periodicals, including clippings of Observer articles by Ian Mather; United States Information Service Wireless Files; printed interview transcripts with statements from Soviet dignitaries; briefings from the Defence Information Groups and School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford; press releases from 10 Downing Street, Novosti Press Agency, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Cruise Resistance and McDonnell Douglas Corporation; printed literature and leaflets from McDonnell Douglas Corporation, General Dynamics and Cruise Resistance; photocopies of correspondence between Cruise Resistance members and various individuals; maps of the United Kingdom (UK), Salt Lake Desert area in Utah, US, and the USSR and photographs, showing missiles being launched.

Subjects covered include: Warsaw Pact; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces and Strategic Defense Initiative talks in Geneva; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II); 'Star Wars' and the production, testing and deployment of cruise missiles in Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Holland; NATO; the setting up of Cruisewatch by Cruise Resistance, with the aim of monitoring the activities of cruise missile convoys in the UK, especially around the Greenham Common base in Salisbury Plain, Berkshire, England; protests organised by Cruise Resistance and CND in opposition to missile deployment; promotion of missiles from the General Dynamics company, who manufactured Tomahawk Ground Launch Cruise Missiles, used by the US Air Force; chronology of US/USSR summits since 1943; US President Ronald Reagan; Paul H. Nitze, special advisor to Secretary of State George Shultz, later special advisor to Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters; and Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

The majority of material is in English, but there is also material in Russian.

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: division of Canadian water supplies; Amnesty International including Amnesty Groups; the IRC [International Rescue Committee]; the Defense Aid Fund and apartheid in South Africa; a press conference with [U Thant] discussing Formosa, the Vietnam War, food shortages in India, nationalism, Indonesia's re-entry to the UN, Palestine refugee commission, non proliferation of nuclear weapons, Vietnamese refugees, the UN's relationship with NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and East Germany; timings and convening of [UN Security Council] meetings; Sanctions against Rhodesia including emergency UN Security Council (9 April) meeting concerning the arrival of an oil tanker at Beira destined for Southern Rhodesia, criticism of the British government and C-24 meeting held on 12 April; and African American voter registration in the state of Alabama (United states) following the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Names featured include: Blair Fraser, Jean-Luc Pepin, [Lester B.] Pearson, Alvin Hamilton, Daniel Madzimbamuto, U Thant, [Leonid] Brezhnev, [Gershon] Collier, [Hugh Foot, Baron] Caradon, RW Jackling, Apollo Kironde, [Arthur] Goldberg, Platon D. Morozov, Gustavus Williams and Ian Douglas Smith.

Transcribed by Pauline Hall, Therese Harris and one other volunteer in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives 'Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Depicts Gamal Abdel Nasser as Egyptian gully-gully man with a Soviet chicken up his sleeve while Harold Macmillan, John Foster Dulles and a woman symbolising NATO watch on as tourists.

Notebook written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: Quebec Education Minister, Paul Gerin-Lajoie; an investigation into the seizure of arms at Kisii, Kenya; a list of shareholders in an East African newspaper; industries in Tanzania; education including science and engineering graduates and teacher training in [Tanzania]; Portuguese police and Mozambique; and Chou En Lai's visit to [Tanzania].

Names featured include: Paul Gerin-Lajoie, JK [Jomo Kenyatta], Kalule Settala and Chou En Lai.

Transcribed by Lauraine Newcombe in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Untied Nations agencies.

Subjects covered include: the new secretary-general of the UN, Kofi Annan, 1997; meeting of the 16 nation leaders of NATO, Brussels, 1994; the UN and the environment, 1997; the efficiency of the UN, 1996; reaction to the genocide in Rwanda, nd; UN war crimes trial for atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia, 1994; NATO's big spenders, 1994 and a UN study on world food supplies in 2010, 1993.