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Themes • Key questions in modern world history • Did nuclear weapons help to make the world safer between 1945 and 1951? • The Sources

The Sources

Source no	Document reference	Date	Caption
1	➜ CHUR 2/3/42-50	August 1945	A statement issued by the British government in August 1945.
2	➜ CHAR 8/721/8	10 October 1945	An ‘open letter’ to the American people signed by 20 prominent Americans sent to Churchill by the Hungarian journalist Emery Reves in 10 October 1945.
3	➜ CHUR 2/4/48-50	10 October 1946	An extract from a letter written by Winston Churchill to British Prime Minister Clement Attlee on 10 October 1946.
4	➜ CHUR 5/21 B/16,19-20,24-25,28	9 October 1948	Notes for a speech made by Winston Churchill at the Conservative Party Conference in Llandudno in Wales on 9 October 1948.
5	➜ CHUR 5/36A/125-127	5 July 1950	An extract from notes written by Churchill in preparation for a speech. The speech was made in the House of Commons on 5 July 1950.
6	➜ CHUR 5/44 B/215-216	15 October 1951	An extract from notes written by Churchill in preparation for a speech. The speech was made as part of the Conservative Party’s general election campaign in Plymouth, Devon, on 23 October 1951.