| Description | Correspondence, distribution lists, press releases, cuttings, flyer, publicity plan, draft and final copy of report, dust-cover and summary by James Thompson, (agreed by British Psychological Society Council October 1984); invitations and correspondence relating to arrangements for 26 March 1985 Press Briefing Connaught Room 61-65 Great Queen Street , London and Parliamentary Briefing House of Commons Committee Room. |
| AdminHistory | During the British Psychological Society Annual General Meeting held during the Annual Conference 10 April 1983 a proposal was made that a statement should be issued by the Society on psychological aspects of nuclear war. The matter was considered by Council on 21 May 1983 and James Thompson was commissioned to prepare a statement concentrating on the psychological assumptions behind civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the immediate effects of nuclear bombing; human fallibility and the risk of accidental nuclear explosion; and conflict and negotiations. The report was launched in book form, edited by Chris Leach in March 1985 with press and parliamentary briefing - the latter at the House of Commons sponsored by Alf Dubs, Keith Best, Richard Body, Charles Kennedy, Michael Meadowcroft and Daffyd Thomas. |
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