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Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War.
Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Non-proliferation and Defence Department: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FCO 177
What's it about?
FCO 177
This series contains annual policy files on counter proliferation
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 177
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Non-proliferation and Defence Department: Registered Files (NP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1991-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains annual policy files on counter proliferation
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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These records complement earlier material held in FCO 46 and material held in FCO 66. FCO 46 will no longer accrue and FCO 66 will accrue until 1994 when the Arms Control and Disarmament Department ceased to exist FCO 66 FCO 46
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Office, Non-Proliferation and Defence Department, 1990-1995
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2001 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Disarmament
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The records have always been in the custody of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- FCO has internal registers relating to these files which will eventually be subject to a Series Level Appraisal Questionnaire
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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This material will be subject to selection in line with OSP 13 ("Britain's Diplomatic Relations 1973-1996")
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Non Proliferation and Defence Department (NPDD) was established in 1990 on the closure of the Defence Department. In 1995 the department changed its name to the Non-Proliferation Department. In 2003 the department name changed to the Counter-Proliferation Department. In 2015 the responsibility for counter-proliferation and arms control moved to a new joint FCO and MOD unit called the Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control Centre (CPACC).
Foreign and Commonwelath Office (FCO) IT systems were used by these departments from 1995 onwards and this series will therefore be a hybrid of both digital and paper records.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16925297/
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