SZ/CSA/81 - [CSA. Polaris]
Reference code
SZ/CSA/81
Level of description
File
Title
[CSA. Polaris]
Date/s
1962-1964
Quantity & Format
21 items Mixed
Subject
Polaris (missile)
United Kingdom -- Military policy -- 1945-
Deterrence (Strategy)
United Kingdom -- Military policy -- 1945-
Deterrence (Strategy)
Scope and content
Contains correspondence, memoranda, and press cuttings regarding the decision to take Polaris as Britain's nuclear deterrent, the costs involved and to what extent it could be considered an independent deterrent.
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SZ - Zuckerman Archive
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SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]
- SZ/CSA/81 - [CSA. Polaris]
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SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]
- SZ/CSA/81/1 - [Letter, Sir Casper John to SZ, 19/10/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/2 - [Letter, SZ to Sir Caspar John, 22/10/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/3 - [Letter, SZ to Sir Caspar John, 22/10/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/4 - [Copy letter, Sir Thomas Pike to Sir Caspar John, 22/10/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/5 - [Letter, Sir Caspar John to SZ, 29/10/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/6 - [Letter, Sir Caspar John to Sir Thomas Pike, 9/11/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/7 - Polaris missiles for U.K. use: first analysis, 15/12/62
- SZ/CSA/81/8 - UK. Polaris programme - seven sixteen missile submarine [sic], [undated]
- SZ/CSA/81/9 - [Minute, SZ to Sir Caspar John, [undated]
- SZ/CSA/81/10 - [Letter, SZ to John Rubel, 23/12/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/11 - [Letter, Sir Caspar John to SZ, 28/12/62]
- SZ/CSA/81/12 - Notes for meeting with Mr Nitze's party, 17/1/63
- SZ/CSA/81/13 - [Polaris press cuttings]
- SZ/CSA/81/14 - Polaris sales agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by Command of Her Majesty, April 1963
- SZ/CSA/81/15 - Extracts from the debate on Defence white paper 1964, 26/2/64
- SZ/CSA/81/16 - Did Wilson unlock a big Polaris secret? Sunday Times, 20/12/64
- SZ/CSA/81/16 - Did Wilson unlock a big Polaris secret? Sunday Times, 20/12/64
- SZ/CSA/81/17 - Warheads could be made in Britain. Polaris problem one of cost, Guardian, 21/12/64
- SZ/CSA/81/18 - Polaris: Britain depends on U.S. for the 'urchin', Daily Express, [undated]
- SZ/CSA/81/19 - Nuclear defence. Need to clarify "independence" issue, The Times [?], [undated]
- SZ/CSA/81/20 - Abandoning of Polaris and switch to TSR2 nuclear role seem likely, The Times[?], [undated]