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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Showing items 21 - 30 of 30
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 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 Nov 2 Fr | Major | Cold War: Cartledge briefing for MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative (Meeting of Ministers on 7 November at 4 p.m.)") [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 Nov 21 We | Major | Cold War: Howe minute to MT ("Western Arms Control Strategy: Anglo/US Discussions") [advice on UK stance towards to US on arms control, outer space weapons systems etc.] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Major | Cold War: Powell minute to MT ("Western Arms Control Strategy") [comments on Howe's minute] [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 Dec 10 Mo | Major | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)") [Howe forwards Foreign Affairs article to MT; Powell: "This is very anti-SDI...Perhaps the FCO thinks it is 'educative'!"] [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] |