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.
Sin títuloAnnex F. The paper lists the questions put to the Home Office and the responses received regarding Civil Defence Planning Assumptions.
Sin títuloA meeting between employees from the Home Office, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Department of Environment and Transport, Department of Health and Social Security, GLAWARS and Polytechnic of the South Bank.
Sin títuloA discussion paper presented to the Symposium on Organisational and Behavioural Aspects of Civil Defence held on July 5th 1985 at the Polytechnic of the South Bank.
Sin títuloJoint 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.
Sin títuloPaper setting out the GLC's policy on civil defence and the civil defence exercise INTEX 85.
Sin títuloPaper 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.
Sin títuloCorrespondence regarding the GLAWARS including an internal appraisal report of GLAWARS Task 1.
Sin títuloPart III, Sections 1 to 4 of the War Emergency Plan covering: Works (General); Works (Buildings and Roads); Works (Public Hygiene Services); Works (Liaison Services). Also includes information on organisations involved in Home Defence, the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisations, advice to the public on protection against nuclear attack and a bibliography.
Sin títuloContains 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'
Sin títuloPresscuttings, 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'.
Sin títuloA 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.
Sin títuloReport 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.
Sin títuloExtracts from GLC report P1001 (20.12.83)
Sin títuloPapers related to a discussion regarding contracts who work at nuclear military installations.
Sin títuloA paper outlining the objectives and terms of reference for a study of civil defence planning assumptions to be carried out on behalf of the Greater London Council.
Sin títuloA 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.
Sin títuloComprises presscuttings, scientific articles and government papers on civil defence, emergency planning and local and global effects of nuclear war or attacks.
The records were compiled as research material for the GLAWARS.