BRACERS Record Detail for 56847

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
806
Source if not BR
Bodleian Library
Recipient(s)
Attlee, Clement
Prime Minister, UK
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1945/10/09
Enclosures/References
Ts.
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
GLC
Notes and topics

Enclosed ts. is titled "What America Could Do With the Atomic Bomb By Bertrand Russell".

"I would not trouble you but for the overwhelming importance of the matter."

Transcription

BR TO UK PRIME MINISTER / CLEMENT ATTLEE, 9 OCT. 1945
BRACERS 56847. ALS(X). Bodleian Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Grosvenor Lodge, Babraham Road,
Cambridge.
9 Oct. 1945

Dear Prime Minister

I venture to send you the enclosed on policy regarding the atomic bomb,1 because a leader in today’s Times suggests a policy which I cannot think wise.

The article I enclose will appear in Cavalcade. I would not trouble you but for the overwhelming importance of the matter.

Yours very sincerely
Russell

  • 1

    send you the enclosed on policy regarding the atomic bomb “Humanity’s Last Chance”, Cavalcade, 20 Oct. 1945 (B&R C45.19); 64 in Collected Papers 24.

Publication
Re B&R C45.19
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
56847
Record created
Jun 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana