Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to book, What hope in an armed world?, including chapter by Wilkins

Manuscript notes, draft and photocopy text and correspondence relating to book, What hope in an armed world? (Pickering & Inglis, Basingstoke, 1982), edited by MRAF Sir Neil Cameron, Principal, King’s College London. Files include: photocopy text of a speech by Cameron, ‘Defence in the 1990s’, 1980; photocopy extracts from The evolution of nuclear strategy by Lawrence Freedman (International Institute of Strategic Studies, London, 1981), with accompanying notes by Wilkins; notes made by Wilkins on published histories of the 1963 Cuban missile crisis; typescript drafts of Wilkins’ chapter, ‘Nuclear deterrence is irrational, disarmament rational’; letter from Cameron to Wilkins, Feb 1982, outlining the proposed chapters and contributors.

1980-1982

1 file

Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.