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Series
Ministry of Aviation: Atomic Weapons Division: Reports
Catalogue reference: AVIA 91
What's it about?
AVIA 91
This series contains atomic weapons reports.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AVIA 91
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Aviation: Atomic Weapons Division: Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains atomic weapons reports.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 2003 Ministry of Defence
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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
- Weapons
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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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This series contains reports produced by the Headquarters group managing the WN programmes both under the Ministry of Supply (MoS) and Ministry of Aviation (MoA). This includes NW reports made by Controller Production (Atomic Energy) and Controller Atomic Energy, both posts held by Lord Portal (1946-1951), and the subsequent post of CAW held by Sir Frank Morgan (1951-1956).
It also covers the organisation that followed - DGAW (Director General Atomic Weapons) - which became part of MoA after the demise of MoS in 1959. DGAW included DAWD (Directorate of Atomic Weapons Development) and DAWP&F (Directorate of Atomic Weapons Production and Factories). The latter had the Royal Ordnance Factories at Burghfield and Cardiff as sub-elements.
Reports made by both CSAR (Chief Superintendent Armament Research) and HER (High Explosives Research) prior to the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 are also covered.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2671/
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