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Presscuttings
GLAWARS/3/1 · File · 1982-1985
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

Presscuttings relating to Civil Defence and Nuclear War

International Herald Tribune, The Times, The Washington Post, New Statesman, Nature, The Plain Truth, New Scientist, Independent, Farmers Weekly, Newsletter of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Research Materials
GLAWARS/3 · Series · 1967-1987
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

Comprises 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.

GLAWARS/2/4 · Item · 13 December 1983
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

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.

Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee Staff Committee, Greater London Council
GLAWARS/2/26 · Item · 12 April 1984
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

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.

Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee, Greater London Council
GLAWARS/2/25 · Item · 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'.

Greater London Council
GLAWARS/2/24 · File · 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'

Greater London Council
War Emergency Plan
GLAWARS/2/23 · File · n.d.
Part of Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS)

Part 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.

Emergency Planning Division, Greater London Council and the London Borough of Enfield
GLAWARS/2/2 · Item · 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.

Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee, the Planning Committee and the Transport Committee, Greater London Council