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GLAWARS · Archief · 1967-1987

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'

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GLAWARS/2/2 · Stuk · 9 March 1982
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

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.

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GLAWARS/2/16 · Stuk · 1 May 1985
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

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.

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GLAWARS/2/24 · Bestanddeel · c.1984
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

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'

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GLAWARS/2/25 · Stuk · June-August 1985
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

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'.

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