Bestanddeel 2 - Arms control research files

3 files

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.

Material arranged chronologically

Copyright: Various

Additonal material relating to arms control at Telex reports OBS/6/2/2/1/2