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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

CLEARWATER, Dr John Murray (b 1966)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Clearwater

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: CLEARWATER, Dr John Murray (b 1966)

Date(s): Created 1943-1996

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 8 boxes or 0.08 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Clearwater | John Murray | b 1966 | military analyst and historian

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1966; studied political science at the University of Winnipeg, Canada; awarded Master's degree on Soviet and Canadian military policy and nuclear weapons doctrine by Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1990; employed as analyst and historian for Air Command Headquarters, Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg, Canada, 1991-1992; former PhD student in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, 1993-1996; employed by the National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Canada.
Publications: Canadian nuclear weapons (The untold story of Canada's Cold War arsenal) (Dundurn Press, Toronto, Canada, 1998).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript text of doctoral thesis entitled 'The birth of Strategic Arms Control during the Johnson Administration, 1964-1969', King's College London, 1996, with copies of US Government documents, 1964-1972, used by Clearwater in his research. Also, typescript transcripts of interviews with US politicians and foreign policy advisers, including Walt Rostow, Butch Fisher, Paul Warnke, (David) Dean Rusk, Clark McAdams Clifford, Alain Enthoven, Bus Wheeler, John McConnell, John Davis, Robert Strange McNamara and Paul H Nitze. Newspaper cuttings and articles, 1982-1983, relating to the Falklands War, 1982, from US, Argentinian and Canadian sources. Canadian and US newspaper cuttings, articles and copies of official documents relating to the USSR, 1943-1990.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as above.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by Clearwater in 1993 and 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Arms control | Disarmament | Peace
Falklands War (1982) | Wars (events)
Foreign policy | Foreign relations | International relations
Public administration | Government
War | International conflicts

Personal names
Clearwater | John Murray | b 1966 | military analyst and historian
Clifford | Clark McAdams | b 1906 | US Secretary of Defense
Davis | John | fl 1964-1972
Enthoven | Alain | b 1930 | economist and systems analyst
Fisher | Butch | fl 1964-1972
Johnson | Lyndon Baines | 1908-1973 | US President
McConnell | John | fl 1964-1972
McNamara | Robert Strange | b 1916 | US Secretary of Defense
Nitze | Paul Henry | b 1907 | US defence official
Rostow | Walt Whitman | b 1916 | US economist
Rusk | David Dean | 1909-1994 | US Secretary of State
Warnke | Paul Culliton | b 1920 | lawyer and US defence official
Wheeler | Bus | fl 1964-1972

Corporate names
US Central Government

Places
Argentina | South America
Canada | North America
USA | North America
USSR | Eastern Europe
Soviet Union x USSR
Americas
Caribbean