Correspondence on articles and notes submitted by Peierls for publication, or to him for comment; also on obituaries and tributes to colleagues (includes manuscript drafts or copies of several of Peierls's contributions).

Correspondence on articles and notes submitted by Peierls for publication, or to him for comment; also on obituaries and tributes to colleagues (includes manuscript drafts or copies of several of Peierls's contributions).

Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1970 New Scientist, 1958, 1964, 1969-1971 (Includes Peierls's review of The Born-Einstein letters and a typescript of the article 'Disarmament - Utopia or Commonsense?'). The New York Review of Books, 1970-1971 (Includes the manuscript of Peierls's review of …

Peierls served on the Editorial Committee 1963-1974.

Oliver and Boyd Ltd., 1962-1963 Pergamon Press, 1955-1963, 1967, 1972 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding: Journal of Nuclear Energy (Peierls served on Advisory Board). Progress in Nuclear Energy (Peierls served on Advisory Board). Atomnaia Energiia (Peierls advised on…

Physical Review, 1947, 1950 Physics Today, 1973-1974 Science, 1957 Science Abstracts, 1958 Science Journal, 1968, 1969 Science Progress, 1964, 1965 …

Time-Life International, 1956 The Times, 1966-1974 (Includes miscellaneous obituary notices by Peierls of Oppenheimer, Born, Rosenfeld among others). The Times Literary Supplement, 1969-1970 (Includes a review of Lawrence and Oppenheimer). The Twentieth…

Miscellaneous shorter correspondence with publishers and editors regarding permission to quote or reprint, complimentary copies of publications sent to Peierls, etc.

Miscellaneous invitations to Peierls from publishers and colleagues, to write books/articles, reviews, contributions to symposia, to serve on editorial boards, etc.

The topics covered include the history of atomic physics, atomic warfare, the Fuchs case, recollections of scientific colleagues. Programmes referred to include: 'The Bomb' (BBC Radio), 1962 Series on Quantum Physics (BBC TV), 1963 'The Decision to drop the atomic bomb' (NBC), 1964 'The Birth of the Bomb' (Sveriges Radio), 1965 …

Peierls recorded an interview for the producer (Robert Reid) of this programme, which was screened in March 1965. Although the interview was not used in the programme, Peierls was disturbed by inaccuracies and distortions in the final version, and took up the matter with the producer, the then Director-General of the BBC, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, and with several of his own scientific colleagues in the USA. Extensive correspondence, script of the programme. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b.…

Miscellaneous reports by Peierls and his colleagues, returned from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, after declassification in 1957 and 1958. N.B. Ms. 7 (see letter of 26 February 1958) is missing.