GB 0099 KCLMA Melissen - MELISSEN, Dr Jan (b 1960)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Melissen

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MELISSEN, Dr Jan (b 1960)

Date(s)

  • Created 1949-1958 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

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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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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  • English

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