Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: London Office

Division within AB

1939-1994

Records of the London Office headquarters of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, established in 1954, to oversee the authority's central administration include committee papers in AB 41, annual reports in AB 22, publications in AB 17 and photographs in AB 18. Correspondence and papers of senior management are in AB 49

Earlier series of registered files on all subjects will be found in AB 16; some series are continued elsewhere by subject from 1962 as follows:

• Contract and stores: AB 42
• Finance and accounts: AB 43
• General administration: AB 44
• Health and Safety: AB 45
• Personnel and establishment: AB 46 and AB 47
• Scientific and technical: AB 48

Photocopies of documents presented to the Australian Royal Commission's Inquiry into UK Nuclear Weapons Testing are in AB 40

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Directorate of Tube Alloys, 1941-1945
• Ministry of Supply, Atomic Energy Division, London Office, 1946-1954
• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, London Office, 1954-1954

14 series

Topics

Weapons

Wills and probate

The London Office of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was created as headquarters in 1954, from the London Office of the Ministry of Supply's Atomic Energy Division. It was responsible for co-ordination of policy decisions among the other groups, and for the authority's relations with government departments and other organisations. Additionally, certain of the authority's financial, commercial and administrative services were centred in the London Office.

Following restructuring in April 1977, the authority's five major groups, reported directly to the London Office.