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| Date | Category | Type |
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Author/Source | Title |
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| 87 Jun 8 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
| 86 Jun 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Preparation for European Council: 26-27 June”) [aftermath of Chernobyl, international agriculture, South Africa] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jun 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“European Council: Delors Press Conference, 24 June”) [South Africa, Chernobyl, the budget, internal market, air fares, Greece-Turkey, EC-US and agriculture] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl disaster, Cabinet reshuffle) [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl disaster, prison dispute) [“Worst nuclear accident in history”] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl, prison dispute, private schools) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Prison dispute, Chernobyl,Northern Ireland) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl fears, local elections/by-elections, unions, industry) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (journalism, Chernobyl reactor still smouldering) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (G7 Summit, Libya, Chernobyl, top salaries) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending policy, Chernobyl, economy, industry) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (MT aiming for election hat-trick, Kinnock, Gorbachev on Chernobyl) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (football, by-elections, top salaries, Chernobyl) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Chernobyl, prison officers’ dispute] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Scottish party conference, Chernobyl, foreign visitors] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Perth speech, tax and spending, Chernobyl, prisons) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Tories slump to third in polls, unemployment, education, tourism, Chernobyl) [released 2017] |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Tokyo G7 Communiqué (“Tokyo Declaration: looking forward to a better future”) [statements on international terrorism, the implications of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the economic declaration] |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (Admiral Poindexter-Charles Powell) [the Chernobyl nuclear accident, SDI, nuclear deterrent, Libya] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for IRN (Tokyo G7) |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Tokyo G7 |
| 86 May 8 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 May 8 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Tokyo G7 Summit] |
| 86 May 22 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Jun 17 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Jun 19 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Jun 24 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Sep 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference visiting Norway |
| 86 Dec 9 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to European Parliament |
| 87 Feb 5 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 87 Mar 30 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Soviet Official Banquet |
| 86 Apr 26 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Chernobyl disaster |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Accident at nuclear power station at Chernobyl") [information available to US] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Chernobyl nuclear accident: Soviet response") [belated briefing at MFA from "high-powered trio"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: FCO telegram to UKE Warsaw ("Chernobyl") [prepared to help with evacuation of pregnant wives and young children of Embassy staff] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (updates) [prisons; nuclear accident; markets; Libya; plutonium; supplementary benefit and mortgage interest; ministerial visit] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (forwarding advice from Chief Scientific Adviser) [avoid saying similar accident could not happen in UK] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (forwarding advice from Walter Marshall) ["without any doubt at all ... the biggest disaster the nuclear industry has had"; re-fueling of some British reactors "comparable in concept"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: No.10 message to MT's party in Tokyo ("Radioactive Milk"; radio interview with Chief Scientific Adviser) [Sellafield readings; radiation levels in milk declining] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: HM Ambassador to Moscow despatch ('Chernobyl') [course of events, Soviet handling, implications] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Policy Unit minute for MT ("The Chernobyl Incident - Contingency Planning") ["some pretty maladroit footwork - especially in the initial stages"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Ingham minute for MT ("Post Chernobyl Presentation") [impression of buck-passing] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Armstrong minute for Powell ("Chernobyl: Nuclear Safety") [Japanese propose G7 should issue statement; likely to be on lines we wish] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Nuclear accident in Chernobyl: round up of Soviet statements and comment") [Powell notes: "poor Soviet performance on their obligations"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ('Chernobyl') [new information given to western Ambassadors; "small step ... towards more sensible and civilised behaviour"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Chernobyl nuclear accident: Gorbachev's speech") ["little new information and no real reassurance to the Soviet population on health hazards ... no real hint of apology or admission of possible failure or delay in handling the accident"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow ("Chernobyl nuclear accident") [call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs and demand information; IAEA requirements] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Arrangements to cope with the effects on the UK of Chernobyl") [Monitoring of Milk, Water Supplies, Air etc; Interdepartmental Coordination] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Arrangements to cope with the effects on the UK of Chernobyl") [Interdepartmental Coordination - Department of the Environment resisting lead role] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ('Chernobyl') [Department of the Environment statement; EC debating action on food imports from affected areas] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Jun 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for Home Secretary ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [Civil Contingencies Unit to consider lessons and "prepare appropriate new plans for the future"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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] |
| 86 May 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: MT letter to Walter Marshall (thanks for his letter briefing her on the disaster) ["a real gem, full of insight and wisdom and so invaluble for our briefing for the Summit"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Soviet Ambassador letter to Ingham (Moscow press conference transcript) [rejects reproach from G7] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for No.10 ("Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Incident") [proposed study by Chief Scientists] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: UKMIS Vienna telegram to FCO (International Atomic Energy Authority briefing) [situation coming under control] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Call by Japanese Charge") [account of Japanese exchanges with Soviets on Chernobyl as mandated at Tokyo G7] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Aug 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: UKMIS Vienna telegram to FCO (International Atomic Energy Authority briefing) [Chernobyl: post-accident review meeting, "serious and well-prepared presentations by the Soviet experts"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Norgrove minute for MT ("Lessons of Chernobyl") [interim CCU report; "bureaucratic and would not ... carry much reassurance for the world outside"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Wybrew minute for MT ("CCU Report - Lessons of Chernobyl") ["We have to demonstrate that the benefits of nuclear power can be harnessed safely"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Nov 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Norgrove letter to Unwin ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [MT "concerned about the time it has taken to produce this first report ... next stage should be taken forward as a matter of urgency"] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Dec 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Unwin letter to Norgrove ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [problems with Department of the Environment] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Dec 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Ingham minute for Bridadier Budd ("Chernobyl PQ") [CCU report - "great deficiency" with his draft PQ] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Dec 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Unwin letter to Norgrove ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [MT approves statement on interim report] [released Dec 2017] |
| 87 Apr 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for No.10 ("The Scientific and Technical Implications of the Chernobyl Incident") [satisfied with underlying research but leadership and coordination weak] [released Dec 2017] |
| 87 May 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Norgrove minute for MT ("Chernobyl: the new national contingency plan") [recommends against publication before General Election; MT agrees] [released Dec 2017] |
| 87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Norgrove minute for MT ("Contingency plans for a nuclear accident") [recommends publication next Tuesday; MT agrees] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Lord President, Soviet Ambassador) [Chernobyl accident: media coverage & seriousness of the incident] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa sanctions, arms control, post-Chernobyl, strategy team) [released 2017] |
| 86 Jun 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: The Hague European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 86 May 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (briefing meeting for Tokyo Economic Summit) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 May 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Energy Secretary Peter Walker) [MT rejects Walker's proposal to visit Moscow for briefing from Soviets] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: line to take) [Gorbachev's message: arms control, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soviet Ambassador Zamyatin) [MT expresses great sympathy, regrets lack of information provided by Soviets] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Dec 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Whitelaw, Baker, Walker, Clarke & others) [Department of Environment agrees to take lead role in event of future nuclear accident outside UK] [released Dec 2017] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Gorbachev's message: Tokyo Economic Summit, East-West relations, arms control, terrorism, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 May 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“State believe Gorbachev in bitter mood over Western handling of Chernobyl issue”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 87 Mar 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | USSR: MT draft speech (Kremlin State Banquet; 2nd draft) [Chernobyl fireman story] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [brief bilateral on GATT round, EC budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations; Kohl - "Gorbachev was in deep trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jun 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Energy: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (post-Chernobyl) ["the main task is to ensure that there should be no more nuclear accidents"] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Energy: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (post-Chernobyl) ["the first thing that is needed is an early warning system in case of accidents"] [released 2017] |
| 86 Jun 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (“Briefing for European Council, The Hague 26-27 June 1986”) [Internal market; Citizen's Europe; Post-Chernobyl; Drugs; Research and Development; Mediterranean Policy; EC/Turkey; Acid Rain/Large Combustion Plants Directive; PM's closing words on the Dutch Presidency; East/West] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jun 27 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Hague European Council |
| 86 Jun 27 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for TV-AM (Hague European Council) |
| 86 Jul 1 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Hague European Council] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on Chernobyl (offer of help) |
| 86 May 3 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks visiting North-South Korean border (Chernobyl) |
| 86 May 26 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Weizmann Institute lunch |
| 86 May 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Addison minute for MT ('Chernobyl') [accident "could have been much worse"; flaws in Soviet reactor design] [released Dec 2017] |
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