Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1949-1958 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
6 boxes or 0.06 cubic metres
Scope and content
Copies of documents, 1949-1958, from US Government sources, including the Department of Defense,Department of State, National Security Council and Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-1958, and from British Government sources, including the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office, 1952-1958. Compiled as research for a doctoral thesis, 'The struggle for nuclear partnership: Britain, the United States and the making of an ambiguous alliance, 1952-1959'.
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically within two separate sections relating to US and British documents.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Senior Lecturer, Politics Department, and Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, Leicester University; Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Publications: The struggle for nuclear partnership: Britain, the United States and the making of an ambiguous alliance, 1952-1959 (Styx, Groningen, the Netherlands, 1993); Summit diplomacy and alliance politics: the road to Nassau, December 1962 (Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, Leicester University, 1995).
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Melissen in 1993.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Compiled Sep 1998
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- US Government departments (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.