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Chernobyl: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Whitelaw, Baker, Walker, Clarke & others) [Department of Environment agrees to take lead role in event of future nuclear accident outside UK] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3656 f284
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Listed by date of meeting. Relevant minutes from ministers prior to the meeting following the conversation record. Read other documents selected from this file. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here - PREM19-3656.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 9pp
Themes: Energy, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Science & technology, Executive, British relations with the Soviet Union, MT's meetings as PM