Catalogue description Cabinet Office: Chief Scientific Adviser, Solly Zuckerman: Registered Files (Z Series)

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Reference: CAB 168
Title: Cabinet Office: Chief Scientific Adviser, Solly Zuckerman: Registered Files (Z Series)
Description:

This series consists of files raised in the Chief Scientific Adviser's office on international and UK bilateral issues and on all aspects of UK government and industry research and development including: nuclear research; atomic power and weapons, including proliferation; technological co-operation in Europe, including the Soviet Union; reports and papers of the Central Advisory Council on Science and Technology; space policy; land and air transport; computers; chemical and biological weapons, including CS gas; papers of the International Centre for Systematic Analysis of Advanced Societies; the 'brain drain'; the Torrey Canyon oil tanker spillage; papers on the Communications-Electronic and Space Committee.
Date: 1964-1972
Arrangement:

Former reference order in a single sequence
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Z file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Cabinet Office, Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser, 1964-
Physical description: 292 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

Cabinet Office
Selection and destruction information: Routine review, including advice from Zuckerman himself
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Science and Technology Group in the Cabinet Office had its genesis in 1964 when Sir Solly Zuckerman, then Chief Scientific Adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence, was named Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government and Head of the Scientific Civil Service. In 1966 he moved full time to the Cabinet Office. From then until his retirement in 1971, Sir Solly's responsibilities in the Cabinet Office for all scientific and technological matters of national concern included responsibility for advice on and coordination of all matters relating to nuclear policy. Robert Press was transferred from the Ministry of Defence, as a nuclear specialist, with Sir Solly, and on the latter's retirement became responsible for nuclear advisory and coordination work reporting directly to the Secretary of the Cabinet.

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