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

  • Home Office Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Lewis, Kevin, 1955-2008 Schell, Jonathan, b.1943 Hussain, Farooq
Date:
1978-1982
Reference:
K/PP178/11/15
Part of:
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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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’

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1978-1982

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1 file

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

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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.

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