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Contains the records of the Greater London Area War Risk Study arranged into the following sections:

GLAWARS/1 Home Office

GLAWARS/2 Greater London Council (GLC)

GLAWARS/3 Research Materials

GLAWARS/4 Background, Terms of Reference and Research Task Outlines

GLAWARS/5 Newsletters, Progress Reports, Home Office and Consultants' Meetings

GLAWARS/6 Commissioners

GLAWARS/7 Presscuttings

GLAWARS/8 'London Under Attack'

The Consolidated Circular was a first attempt by the Home Office to update, expand and replace previous guidance to local authorities on emergency planning. The Circular looks in great detail at Civil Defence and peacetime emergency plans.

A Report by the Home Office Working Party established to consider advice from the Medical Research Council's Committee on Protection Against Ionizing Radiations on Radiation Hazards in Nuclear War.

A draft consolidated circular of guidance to Local Authorities on emergency planning including arrangements proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the involvement of local authorities in arrangements for food rationing in crisis and war. The report considers the material, identifies proposed Home Office policy changes and discusses practical implications.

Press release includes transcript of the address by the Home Secretary to the Annual General meeting of the Society of Industrial Emergency Services Officers on 28 November 1984.

Guidance consolidating and replacing all emergency services (ES) circulars issued by the Home Office to local authorities before 1985.

A handbook to aid local authorities in making plans for utilising suitable structures for providing civil defence shelters for the public, as required under the Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations 1983.

A Home Office circular up-dating and expanding guidance contained in a previous Circular No.76/69 drawing attention to the need for local authorities to be prepared to deal with an emergency arising from flooding or gales and likely to disrupt public services.

Comprises reports, papers and correspondence created by the Greater London Council regarding civil defence, emergency planning, the GLAWARS and the Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations 1983.

VIREG was a joint Home Office and local authority exercise to test the civil defence plans of local authorities in each county of Region 6. The post exercise report evaluates the exercise and gives recommendations for further action.

Contents includes a question on Nuclear Weapon Verification [Col.1008] and a motion on the Soviet Union: Relations with the East [Col.1012]

Reports, circulars, speeches and papers from the Home Office regarding emergency planning and civil defence in local authorities.

Joint report for the Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee, the Planning Committee and the Transport Committee of the Greater London Committee following an initiative of Manchester City Council to call on the Government to refrain from manufacturing or positioning nuclear weapons within the Greater London area.

Report containing a summary of the new Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations and recommendations for the Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee Staff Committee of the Greater London Council.

Extracts from GLC report P1001 (20.12.83)

Contains correspondence between the Greater London Council and the Home Office regarding the Home Office's request for local authorities to complete preparation plans required by Civil Defence Regulations 1983. Also includes a report from a GLC meeting to discuss the Home Office request.

Contains a foreword by Ken Livingstone, two postcards, a map of possible targets in and around London, 2 photomontage posters on Civil Defence, and the following publications;

'Why the GLC Disagrees with the Government',

'London and the Defence Industry'

'London as a Nuclear Free Zone'

'What Would it be Like After Nuclear Attack? A View from Inside the Civil Defence Establishment'

'Blackout to Whitewash: Civil Defence Since 1937, A GLC Exhibition'

'Doctors and the Bomb; An Article from the British Medical Journal'

A report summarising the findings of surveys carried out in connection with the flood warning practice, particularly in relation to the audibility of the flood warning sirens and the public's awareness and understanding of the warning system. It examines option for improving the systems and puts forwards recommendations.