Collection BRINK OF APOCALYPSE - 1983 - THE BRINK OF APOCALYPSE: television documentary archive

Key Information

Reference code

BRINK OF APOCALYPSE

Title

1983 - THE BRINK OF APOCALYPSE: television documentary archive

Date(s)

  • 2007 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

4 boxes or 0.04m3

Scope and content

The 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse documentary archive consists of transcripts of 31 interviews concerning events in Nov 1983 when a NATO command post exercise, code named ABLE ARCHER, caused the USSR to believe that NATO was planning a genuine nuclear ... »

System of arrangement

There is no identifiable order of the interviews; hence the transcripts have been maintained in the order received.

General Information

Name of creator

Custodial history

The collection was placed in the Centre by Taylor Downing, Flashback Television in 2010

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

Please note that we cannot provide copies of the original documentary. Copies of the transcripts and research material, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only.

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Finding aids

This collection level description and detailed catalogue.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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