Catalogue description Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and related bodies: Directorate of Tube Alloys and related bodies: War of 1939-1945, Correspondence and Papers

This series contains war-time and post-war atomic energy and atomic weapons research papers originating in various governmental and non-governmental bodies. These include the Directorate of Tube Alloys of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (records otherwise in DSIR) and later the Ministry of Supply; the MAUD Committee of the Ministry of Aircraft Production; scientists at ICI Limited and various UK universities; the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington; and the Anglo-Canadian joint atomic energy project.

Subjects covered include scientific and technical developments, the staffing and structure of the various organizations, minutes and papers of the MAUD Committee and its sub-committees, reports of visits, research arrangements at UK universities, contracts and patents, supply of uranium and heavy water, Anglo-American relations, the Chalk River reactor site, post-war uses of atomic energy and reports on the German effort to utilise atomic energy.

For records of the Tube Alloys Consultative Council see CAB 126

For other related files see AB 16

For registered files of the British Central Scientific Office and British Commonwealth Scientific Office of the Ministry of Supply and successors see AVIA 42

From 1972 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority