SZ/CSA/100/3/13 - [Letter, Earl of Birkenhead to SZ, 6/6/61]

Reference code

SZ/CSA/100/3/13

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Earl of Birkenhead to SZ, 6/6/61]

Date/s

1961

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Snow, C. P.
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, 1897-1974
Jones, R. V.

Creator

Birkenhead, Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith,

Creator

Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Birkenhead is sure that Snow got the information, that Cherwell's estimate of bomb damage was 10 times too high, from Blackett's lecture. R.V. Jones thinks Blackett tried to prove that the bombing policy was wrong for moral reasons.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]
  - SZ/CSA/100 - [CSA. Correspondence - Correspondence B]
    - SZ/CSA/100/3 - [CSA. Correspondence with the Earl of Birkenhead]
      - SZ/CSA/100/3/13 - [Letter, Earl of Birkenhead to SZ, 6/6/61]

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