File of papers relating to SDP and Liberal Party joint policy on defence, including:

• inner file: `Historical papers on defence' containing correspondence and copy correspondence on defence issues between David Owen and SDP/Liberal Party members including Shirley Williams, John Roper and Paddy Ashdown; correspondence concerning Time article on the history of the Labour Party's nuclear weapon policy by John Barry including David Owen's reaction to a draft of the article and letter from James Callaghan to David Owen commenting on the article; copies of Hansard extracts on nuclear weapons debates contributed to by David Steel and William Rodgers; extract of Question Time transcript in which David Steel proposed the cancellation of Trident nuclear weapon programme, Mar 1982
• Inner file of draft pages of report of the SDP/Liberal Alliance Joint Defence and Disarmament Commission, May 1986

Originally part of reference filing system