Contains detials about the seven GLAWARS commissioners, their roles, memorandum and meeting minutes.
GLAWARSThe 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.
Home OfficePapers related to a discussion regarding contracts who work at nuclear military installations.
Policy Co-ordinating Committee, Greater London CouncilPaper 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.
Nuclear Policy Unit, Greater London CouncilPublished 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.
R Barton, Journal of the Institute of Civil DefenceCorrespondence regarding the GLAWARS including an internal appraisal report of GLAWARS Task 1.
Greater London CouncilA 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.
Home OfficeGuidance consolidating and replacing all emergency services (ES) circulars issued by the Home Office to local authorities before 1985.
Home OfficeA 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.
Home OfficeVIREG 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.
Home OfficeA 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.
S.L.Thompson, V.V.Alekdandrov, G.L.Stenchikov, S.H.Schneider, C.Covey and R.M.ChervinContains 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'
Greater London Area War Risk StudyA 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.
Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee, Greater London CouncilComprises 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.
Greater London CouncilPresscuttings, 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'.
Greater London CouncilReports, circulars, speeches and papers from the Home Office regarding emergency planning and civil defence in local authorities.
Home OfficeReport 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.
Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee Staff Committee, Greater London Council