SZ/CSA/192 - [CSA. Skybolt]
Reference code
SZ/CSA/192
Level of description
File
Title
[CSA. Skybolt]
Date/s
1960-1963
Quantity & Format
84 items Mixed
Subject
Skybolt (missile)
Scope and content
Contains minutes, papers, and correspondence covering all stages of the Skybolt project from the initial agreement, through technical and financial difficulties, testing, to the ultimate cancellation. Much of the correspondence concerns the conflicting attitudes towards Skybolt among policy makers in the United Kingdom and United States. The cost and recurring technical difficulties are referred to frequently as major obstacles as far as the United States was concerned. Within British circles there was anxiety that the government was not embarrassed by cancellation or postponement so soon after obtaining Parliament's agreement. Provision of Polaris and a Scottish base for the United States Navy are also referred to.
See also [SZ/CSA/88].
See also [SZ/CSA/88].
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SZ - Zuckerman Archive
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SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]
- SZ/CSA/192 - [CSA. Skybolt]
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SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]
- SZ/CSA/192/1 - [Minute, SZ to the Minister of Defence, 16/5/60]
- SZ/CSA/192/2 - [Minute, Richard Chilver to the Prime Minister, 7/6/60]
- SZ/CSA/192/3 - Skybolt. Memorandum of understanding, 6/6/60
- SZ/CSA/192/4 - Skybolt capital costs, [undated]
- SZ/CSA/192/5 - [Rough MS notes, undated]
- SZ/CSA/192/6 - [Minute, SZ to the Minister of Defence, 14/6/60]
- SZ/CSA/192/7 - Revised version of Clause 10 (Warheads) - Skybolt, [undated]
- SZ/CSA/192/8 - Draft. Agreement concerning the development, manufacture, and operation of the Skybolt weapon system, 13/6/60
- SZ/CSA/192/9 - Nuclear deterrent policy. Note of a meeting held at 10 Downing Street on 15 June 1960, 16/6/60
- SZ/CSA/192/10 - [Copy letter, F.A. Bishop to T.J. Bligh, undated]
- SZ/CSA/192/11 - [Minute, E.W. Playfair to Sir William Strath, 16/6/60