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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.

Paper setting out the GLC's policy on civil defence and the civil defence exercise INTEX 85.

Paper prepared for the National Steering Committee setting out the Conference of Nuclear Free Local Authorities' belief in the futility of Conventional War planning in a nuclear weapons state.

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

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'.

A paper outlining the objective and terms of reference for a study or studies of civil defence planning assumptions to be carried out on behalf of the Greater London Council. The purpose of the studies is to provide the GLC with planning assumption and other information for civil defence planning purposes.

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)

Papers related to a discussion regarding contracts who work at nuclear military installations.

A paper comparing the questions sent by the London Borough of Camden to the answers sent in reply by the Home Office in relation to civil defence planning assumptions.

A paper originally presented in preliminary format at a Symposium on the Medical Aspects of Nuclear War in September 1985,

A paper emphasising the responsibility of community physicians for planning of health services including disaster planning.

An article by Alvin M. Saperstein published in vol.14 no.4 of Bulletin of Peace Proposals, a quarterly journal discussing contemporary international and intergroup affairs and searching for peaceful solutions to conflict situations.

A paper about experiments analysing the effects of a large-scale nuclear war on the global climate through the use of three dimensional climate models to simulate the effects.

A working paper reflecting a preliminary attempt to assemble accurate data regarding US and USSR strategic forces between 1946 and 1986, including bomber forces, intercontinental ballistic missile forces and submarine-launched ballistic missile forces.

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.

Published correspondence between Councillor Barton, the Chair of the National Steering Committee of Nuclear Free Zone Authorities and the editor of the Journal of the Institute of Civil Defence.