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Notes of a meeting held at the Home Office on 14 March 1985.

Correspondence regarding the GLAWARS including an internal appraisal report of GLAWARS Task 1.

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.

Presscuttings, correspondence and Hansard notes on Exercise 'Brave Defender', which was a 'home defence' exercise that took place from 2-13 September 1985 to give training to the new Home Service Force 9HSF), a volunteer soldier body (likened to 'Dad's Army') whose function would have been to guard 'key points' against the Soviet 'Spetsnaz'.

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'

Annex F. The paper lists the questions put to the Home Office and the responses received regarding Civil Defence Planning Assumptions.

Extracts from GLC report P1001 (20.12.83)