Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to the effects of nuclear attack

Collected papers relating to the effects of nuclear attack, including: copy typescript joint Home Office and Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries memorandum, ‘Food and agriculture controls in war’ issued to local authorities in England and Wales, 1979; copy article by Kevin Lewis, ‘The prompt and delayed effects of nuclear war’, published in Scientific American, Vol 241 No 1, Jul 1979; typescript draft letter to The Times by Wilkins, May 1981 (not published), on the possibility of a starving population being driven to cannibalism following nuclear attack; article by Jonathan Schell, ‘Reflections: the fate of the earth 1: a republic of insects and grass’, published in The New Yorker, Feb 1982; undated Central Office of Information booklet, ‘Civil defence: why we need it’, with manuscript annotations. Original file title ‘Nuclear attack food etc’

1978-1982

1 file

Home Office; Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries; Scientific American; Wilkins, Maurice

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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.