Archive

1982 Oct 20 - 1983 Sep 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/979
Defence (Modernisation of Theatre Nuclear Forces (TNF) in Europe; proposed basing of United States Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) in the UK; Geneva talks on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 353
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82 Oct 20 Wed Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Nuclear Issues") [Trident and US Cruise missile deployments to UK: "in our original decisions we under-estimated the problem of possible public opposition"] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 25 Mon Defence: Pym minute to MT (nuclear defence issues: UK basing of US cruise missiles) ["Any hint at this stage that we were having second thoughts about the 1979 decision on GLCM deployments could put at risk the whole enterprise"] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 3 Wed Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Nuclear Issues") [US Cruise missile deployments to UK: any evidence of HMG having second thoughts "would seriously prejudice relations with Washington"] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 11 Thu Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("MISC 7: Nuclear Defence Issues") [UK basing of US cruise missiles] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tue Defence: MOD record of conversation (Nott-German Secretary of State for Defence, Woerner) [nuclear weapons] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tue Defence: MOD record of conversation (Nott-US Defense Secretary, Weinberger) [UK basing of US cruise missiles] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 Wed Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Basing of Cruise Missiles and Arms Control") [US Cruise missile deployments to UK: "We will be very vulnerable politically to the charge of hazarding the UK for an American system"] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 13 Thu Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Alliance and Nuclear Matters") [INF negotiations] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 21 Fri Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Views on I.N.F.") [INF negotiations] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 25 Tue Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Control Arrangements for UK Based Cruise Missiles") [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 25 Tue Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Basing of Cruise Missiles") [timing of deployment of GLCMs to Greenham Common] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 25 Tue Defence: Pym minute to MT ("INF Negotiations") [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 26 Wed Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("MISC 7: Basing of United States Cruise Missiles") [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 26 Wed Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Control Arrangements for UK-Based Cruise Missiles") [relevance to INF negotiations] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 28 Fri Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Meeting at Chequers on 30 January: Arms Control Issues") [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 30 Sun Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT-Pym-Heseltine-Officials) ["Nuclear Defence Policy - Arms Control"] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 16 Wed Defence: Reagan message to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 17 Thu Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("INF: President Reagan's Message of 16th February") [draft reply] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 18 Fri Defence: MT message to Reagan (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 4 Fri Defence: UKE San Francisco to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Shultz at Paolo Alto on 3 March: INF") [declassified 2013]