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- Created 1949-1958 (Creation)
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6 boxes or 0.06 cubic metres
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Senior Lecturer, Politics Department, and Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, Leicester University; Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Archival history
GB 0099 KCLMA Melissen Created 1949-1958 Collection (fonds) 6 boxes or 0.06 cubic metres
Senior Lecturer, Politics Department, and Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, Leicester University; Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Presented to the Centre by Melissen in 1993.
Copies of documents, 1949-1958, from US Government sources, including the Department of Defense,Department of State, National Security Council and Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-1958, and from British Government sources, including the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office, 1952-1958. Compiled as research for a doctoral thesis, 'The struggle for nuclear partnership: Britain, the United States and the making of an ambiguous alliance, 1952-1959'.
The collection is arranged chronologically within two separate sections relating to US and British documents.
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Sep 1998 Alliances Bilateral relations Central government East West relations Foreign policy Foreign relations Government Government departments International relations Military equipment Nuclear engineering Nuclear weapons Public administration US Government departments Weapons Equipment
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented to the Centre by Melissen in 1993.
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Scope and content
Copies of documents, 1949-1958, from US Government sources, including the Department of Defense,Department of State, National Security Council and Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-1958, and from British Government sources, including the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office, 1952-1958. Compiled as research for a doctoral thesis, 'The struggle for nuclear partnership: Britain, the United States and the making of an ambiguous alliance, 1952-1959'.
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The collection is arranged chronologically within two separate sections relating to US and British documents.
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Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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English
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Finding aids
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
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- International relations » Foreign relations » Alliances
- International relations » Bilateral relations
- Government » Public administration » Central government
- International relations » East West relations
- International relations » Foreign relations » Foreign policy
- International relations » Foreign relations
- Government
- Government » Public administration » Central government » Government departments
- International relations
- Military equipment
- Nuclear engineering
- Military equipment » Weapons » Nuclear weapons
- Government » Public administration
- Military equipment » Weapons
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- English