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Chernobyl: Powell minute for Cabinet Office ("Chernobyl: Soviet Management of the Crisis") [MT has read JIC report on topic "with considerable interest"; asks what contingency plans we are making?] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3656 f140
Editorial comments:

Unwin's reply follows the Powell minute. Read other documents selected from this file. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here - PREM19-3656.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 6pp
Themes: Health policy, Agriculture, Trade, Energy, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), European Union (general), Environment, Media, Science & technology, Security services & intelligence, Executive, British relations with the Soviet Union