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1979 Dec 24 - 1984 Dec 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1188
Defence (Military uses of laser technology in space; anti-satellite systems and arms control; ballistic missile defence; the United States Strategic Defence Initiative) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 249
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84 Oct 11 Th Major Cold War: Powell minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD): UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [response to MOD/FCO paper on SDI: "the paper caricatures BMD in order to make its point"] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 29 Tu Major Cold War: MOD letter to No.10 ("President Reagan's Speech on Defensive Technology") [Strategic Defense Initiative: detailed assessment of Reagan's SDI speech] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 19 Tu Major Cold War: Heseltine and Howe minute to MT ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control") [MOD/FCO paper on ASATs, SDI and arms control] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 14 Th Major Cold War: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Military Developments in Outer Space") [Strategic Defense Initiative: European attitudes towards SDI and ASATs] [declassified 2014]
80 Jan 28 Mo Major Cold War: MOD letter to No.10 ("Military Uses of Laser Technology in Space") [assessment of Soviet space laser development] [declassified 2014]
79 Dec 24 Mo Major Cold War: Pages from Transnational Security with MT annotations ("Soviet Pressures: 2. Lasers in space") [MT asks for further advice on Soviet space laser development] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 2 Mo Major Cold War: Cradock minute to Powell ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control") [Cradock's assessment of joint MOD/FCO paper on anti-satellite systems, SDI and military uses of space] [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 24 Fr Major Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems") [MT requests more information on ASATs and arms control] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 12 We Major Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("The US Strategic Defence Initiative") [MT's response to Foreign Affairs article forwarded by Howe: MT "does not agree with some of its central propositions"] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 14 Th Major Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD (request for advisory papers on anti-satellite systems and chemical weapons) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fr Major Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs) and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers") [ASATs and SDI: background for 16 July meeting with Howe and Heseltine] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fr Major Cold War: Cradock minute to Powell ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers") [ASATs and SDI: response to MT's query] [declassified 2014]
81 Jan 14 We Major Cold War: MOD letter to No.10 (US development of directed energy weapons) [Strategic Defense Initiative] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 7 We Major Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Rifkind-Stanley-Armstrong-Acland-Whitmore-Cradock-Fieldhouse-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Ballistic Missile Defence: United Kingdom Policy towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative"] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 15 Mo Major Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD): UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [response to MOD/FCO paper on SDI: "The Prime Minister's general view is that the case against [SDI] is not so open and shut as suggested"] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 2 Mo Major Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control") [MT's response to MOD/FCO paper on ASATs, SDI and arms control] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 9 Mo Major Cold War: MOD letter to No.10 (arrangements for MT's briefing on anti-satellite systems, SDI and arms control) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("Western Arms Control Strategy: Anglo/US Discussions") [MT's response to Howe's minute] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 11 Th Major Cold War: Heseltine and Howe minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [advocates sceptical stance towards SDI] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fr Major Cold War: Cartledge briefing for MT ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers: 16 July at 5 p.m.") [ASATs and SDI] [declassified 2014]