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Countdown: Britain's Strategic Nuclear Forces by Menaul: summary of content.

A Book of Herne by Eric Mottram (Arrowspire Press, Colne, Lancashire, 1981), typescript of contents with manuscript versions of 'Gifting hand', 'A line of inquiry' and 'Notebook 3', and table of contents, accompanied by material illustrating the text, with correspondence including postcards from Tony Lopez and Allen Fisher; 33 items

Is there any sense in the smaller powers maintaining armies?', article by Liddell Hart in The Continental Daily Mail, The Bristol Evening Post and The South Wales Echo and Evening Express

Ten years after: how we lost the key to the pacific-by oversight', article by Liddell Hart in the Continental Daily Mail

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Ray Steiner Cline, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1962-1966, Special Adviser, US Embassy, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, 1966-1969, Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US State Department, 1969-1973, and Director of World Power Studies, Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, USA, 1973-1984, relating to the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; assassination attempts on Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, [1958-1962]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the leadership and character of US President Kennedy, and of his brother, Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; Cuban influence and involvement in Angola and Nicaragua, 1963-[1989]; the increase in production of Soviet Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), 1964-1965.

Typescript transcript of interview with US Lt Gen James Maurice Gavin, Army Member, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, 1949-1955, Chief of Research and Development, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, 1955-1958, and US Ambassador to France, 1961-[1963], relating to US development of tactical nuclear weapons, 1952-1953; the role and importance of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), USAF (US Air Force), 1952-1960; the adoption of the new US military strategy, 'The New Look', based on a reduction in conventional forces and an increased reliance on thermonuclear and tactical nuclear weapons, 1953; US development of the Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), 1954-1957; the deployment of US tactical nuclear weapons in western Europe to counter the perceived threat of a Soviet invasion, [1955-1962].

Typescript transcript of interview with McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to US Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1961-1966, and Professor of History, New York University, USA, 1979-[1989], relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; the leadership and character of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the removal of US Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) from Turkey, 1965.

Conclusion of speech giving reasons for resigning from Derby War Air Committee calling for a united air service. Typed 1 p

Contract between Menaul and Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd publishes for essay on the Battle of Dien Bien Phu for anthology: Decisive battles of the twentieth century with covering letter. (See also 7/10/226-227)

St Thomas’s Hospital Contract for building new hospital at Stangate'. Printed copy of the agreement 1867– unsigned – between John Perry, Charles Edward Alfort, Joseph Brindley, and Francis Hicks, Treasurer of the Hospital, for £332 748, containing General Conditions and Specification of works. Includes loose copies of standing orders for the surveyor, 21 Nov 1894.

Contracts, releasing British forces from responsibility for their lives, signed by members of the Greek partisan (andarte) delegation to Cairo to meet with the Greek Government in Cairo, demanding that the King should not be returned to Greece before a plebiscite is held. 7 items

Signed agreements for book contracts, with some related correspondence and an account book of expenses, 1943-1966. 39 items

Contributions to Makers of modern culture ed. Justin Wintle (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1981)

Conventional military symbols', field service pocket book issued by the War Office (Keliher, Hudson and Kearns, London, Jul 1943). 1 booklet

Letters From A Volunteer, a pamphlet edition of letters written to his parents while in barracks at Dover with 3 and 10 Bns East Surrey Regt, Oct 1914-Jan 1915, illustrated with photographs and privately published by Don(ald) Cook in 1984; photocopies of two articles by Donald Cook, namely 'The agony of Loos', on the Battle of Loos, France, Sep 1915, from Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association, Summer 1985, and 'Divisional Commander in France: General Sir David Campbell GCB', on the military career of Campbell, 1896-1936, particularly his service on the Western Front, 1914-1918, and his role as commander of 21 Div, 1916-1919, from The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, vol 118, no 2, Apr 1988; copies of sketch maps relating to the above articles, [1984-1988].

Carbon copy of an account of the British Military Mission to Bulgaria, 1944-1947, written in 1974 for the Defence Attaché at the British Embassy in Bulgaria.

Papers of Sir Frank Cooper, 1953-1999, primarily relating to his service as Permanent Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1973-1976, as Permanent Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1976-1982, and post retirement, 1983-1999. The papers include correspondence, articles, press cuttings, press releases, reports, speeches, interviews and conference papers on a variety of topics including: the Air Ministry in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Suez War and Operation MUSKETEER, 1956; the political situation in Northern Ireland, 1973-1976; the Falklands War, 1981-1982, particularly the reaction of the Ministry of Defence and of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the sinking of the Argentinean cruiser BELGRANO; the Civil Service, including relationships with the Government, structural reorganisations, Parliamentary Committees and policy making; the Ministry of Defence, including the Defence budget, management policy and accountability, the civilian contribution to the MoD, the relationships between defence procurement, industry and the economy; wider defence issues including the relationships between Britain, Europe, America and NATO, the importance of research and development collaboration, arms sales, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), the European aerospace industry, American protectionism and technology transfer; British nuclear weapons policy, nuclear deterrence and disarmament, ATBM (anti tactical ballistic missile) defences and the management of the Trident, Polaris and Chevaline projects; British and French maritime forces; and Westland Helicopters PLC, including correspondence from Cooper's time as Director (1982-1985) and parliamentary reports relating to the sale of the company. Also papers relating to projects and study groups including the Joint Study of European Cooperative Measures for Aeronautical Research and Technology (EUROMART), 1978-1991; the EUREKA research and development programme, 1985-1986; EUROGROUP, 1982; the Foundation for International Security, 1984-1990; the British Rocketry Oral History Project, 1997-1998; the Defence Study Group of the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, 1988-1990; and the Institute for Defence Procurement Studies, 1989-1990. Photographs of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in session, 1965-1977 and the Falklands War, 1982, including Royal Marines progressing through Port Stanley, surrendering Argentinean soldiers and piles of surrendered Argentinean weapons. Prints Ulster Impressions by Joan Wanklyn, 1974, RAF Aldergrove by Ken Howard, 1975 and The Great White Whale by Ronald Dean, depicting the SS CANBERRA, 1982.

The method of defence-by attack or defence?', article by Liddell Hart in Cooperation

Co-operation: its the reward for Spain's Combat grande.

Coordinated Action: 'Behind the "peace" movement' by Rael Jean Isaac and Erich Isaac.