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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FCO 184
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FCO 184
The series contains studies, briefings and responses to investigations and reports into aspects of arms control and nuclear disarmament within international and specific geographical areas. Each file within the series covers a specific...
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FCO 184
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit: Registered Files (ACDRU Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1971-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains studies, briefings and responses to investigations and reports into aspects of arms control and nuclear disarmament within international and specific geographical areas. Each file within the series covers a specific geographical, international or subject area regarding arms control and/or nuclear disarmament
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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This series of records is prefixed by either letters C or D. C stands for control and D for disarament. Within their respective letter grouping the recorsd are arranged in numerical order according to year of content.
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This series relate to the Arms Control and Disarament Department of the FCO (FCO 66) which held the FCO policy on this subject FCO 66
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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ACDRU prefix
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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 and Commonwealth Office, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, 1965-1987
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11 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 2022 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development 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
- Research
- Disarmament
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit (ACDRU) was established in 1965 by the then Labour government which sat within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The Unit undertook research into the long-term implications of disarmament.
ACDRU was later re-named to the Arms Control and Disarmament Department (ACDD). The Unit was later absorbed into another department within the FCO
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17139011/
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