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)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 249 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Selections from this file
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 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] |
| 79 Dec 28 Fr | Major | Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Military uses of laser technology in space") [request for further information on Soviet space laser development] [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 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 Jul 16 Mo | Major | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Heseltine-Stanley-Acland-Cradock) ["Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control"] [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 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] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Major | Cold War: Powell minute to MT ("Western Arms Control Strategy") [comments on Howe's minute] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2792 to FCO (2355Z) ("US Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems") [Strategic Defense Initiative: "there is a good deal of momentum in favour of a substantially expanded research and development programme"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telgram 2183 to FCO (2315Z) ("Consultations with the Americans on Space") [discussions with the US on Strategic Defense Initative and ASATs: "there is clearly scepticism among some senior US officials" about SDI] [declassified 2014] |