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PDF 85 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Briefing for the Prime Minister on BMD-SDI”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Professor Norman, MOD Chief Scientist) [Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (“Dinner with Doctor Keywirth”) [the SDI research programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert McFarlane message to MT (SDI) [forwards letters from Weinberger and Abrahamson] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [technical aspects from published sources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative: Effectiveness Against Cruise Missiles”) [MOD remain sceptical] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT messages to Weinberger, Abrahamson and McFarlane (SDI) [thanks for briefing on technical progress] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (breakfast with Henry Kissinger: SDI, arms control) [Kissinger: SDI "the only way out of our nuclear dilemma"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO (“German Views on SDI”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative: Mr. Weinberger’s Views”) [conversations at Ditchley Park] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to No.10 (Cabinet Office note on SDI research) [benefits of collaboration with US research whether or not SDI succeeds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO letter to No.10 (“SDI Testing-ABM Treaty”) [timetable for testing being brought forward] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Caspar Weinberger letter to Michael Heseltine (allied participation in SDI research programme) [requests response within 60 days] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Secretary of State Shultz message to Foreign Secretary Howe (SDI) ['distressed' at media detecting "serious differences" of approach with US from Howe's 15 March lecture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: COI London to FCO (“NATO Supports SDI Research”) [press coverage of Nuclear Planning Group meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell note to MT (Heseltine’s proposal for joint European response on SDI research) ["he wants [to] build up a body of opinion sceptical of SDI"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [Weinberger like Shultz now canvassing possibility of US withdrawal from ABM Treaty] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [Powell explains his policy on notetaking and circulation; MT-Bush meeting in Moscow, US position on ABM] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1106 to FCO (0105Z) (“SDI: Shultz Speech”) [arms control: objectives and prospects] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1107 to FCO (0110Z) (“Shultz Austin Speech: SDI”) [key passages] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute to FCO (“Strategic Defence Initative: Participation in Research Programme”) [a letter from Weinberger] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robin Nicholson’s minute to Robert Armstrong (SDI research and development programme) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Bundestag Debate on SDI”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [Soviet compliance with arms control] [declassified 2014]
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Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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