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Series
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment: Bomb (B) Reports
Catalogue reference: ES 2
What's it about?
ES 2
Reports covering the theoretical and practical aspects of weapon and weapon component design.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ES 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Atomic Weapons Research Establishment: Bomb (B) Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports covering the theoretical and practical aspects of weapon and weapon component design.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Report number order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- B report series
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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)
- 222 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 1997 Atomic Weapons Establishment
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is acccruing
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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 B series, consisting of roughly 220 reports, began in 1953 and reports were added to it until 1980. However from the early 1970s the numbers issued in this series declined markedly.
The reports were subsequently placed in the mainstream Ordinary (O) series which covers fundamental research and instrumentation. There is also some overlap between the subject content of the B reports and the Theoretical Physics Notes, a series which began slightly later on.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7135/
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