IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

(UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Your Ref.

Our Ref.

SOUTH KENSINGTON,
LONDON - S.W.7

Telephone: KENSINGTON 5111

16 July 1959.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger,
Harvard University,
Center for International Affairs,
6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge 38. Mass. U.S.A.

Dear Kissinger,

I very much enjoyed meeting you. I hope you
will send me anything further that you write on
these important subjects. I am sure we will
meet again some time.

With kind regards,

August 6, 1959

Professor P. M. S. Blackett
Department of Physics
Imperial College of Science & Technology
Imperial Institute Road
South Kensington
London S.W. 7, England

Dear Professor Blackett:

Thank you very much for your friendly letters
of July 16th and 20th. Enclosed is a copy of the *Foreign
Affairs* article. Because the article went to press while I
was out of the country there is a slight confusion on page
551. I did not mean to propose that NATO forces should with-
draw 100 miles from the Elbe.

The unedited version read as follows: We can
separate the appeasing military establishments along the Elbe,
say for a distance of 100 miles to prevent an "accidental" war.
There is nothing sacrosanct about our current deployment. We
can agree to any arrangement as long as it does not undermine
the capability for local defense. But we must be frank enough
with ourselves to admit that these schemes are in the realm of
expedients and almost completely irrelevant to the real security
problem in Europe.

With best regards.

December 30, 1959

Professor P.M.S. Blackett
Department of Physics
Imperial College of Science and Technology
Imperial Institute Road
South Kensington
London S.W.7, England

Dear Professor Blackett:

It was most kind of you to send
reprints of your article "Thoughts on
British Defence Policy" of December 5th.
Since I have been doing some serious
thinking on deterrence, pre-emptive war
and the like, I found your section on
the "Jupiter Complex" especially inter-
esting.

Thank you again for sending these
to me.

With best wishes for the New Year.

March 5, 1962

Dr. P.M.S. Blackett, M.A., F.R.S.
Imperial College of Science and Technology
Imperial Institute Road
South Kensington
London S.W.7, England

Dear Blackett:

This is just a note, now that I have
returned to this country, to tell you how nice
it was to see you in India and to continue our
conversation.

I was sorry to miss meeting Harold Wilson
but hope he will let me know when he comes here
next time.

Kind regards.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Head of Department and
Professor of Physics
P. M. S. BLACKETT, M.A., F.R.S.

IMPERIAL COLLEGE

SOUTH KENSINGTON,
LONDON - - S.W.7.

Telephone: KENSINGTON 5111

13th March, 1962.

Dear Kissinger,

Many thanks for your note. I will
look forward greatly to having a long
talk with you when we next meet.

If ever you come to Europe again,
do come and see us here.

Yours sincerely,

P. M. S. Blackett.

Dr. H. A. Kissinger,
Harvard University Center for International
6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge 38,
Massachusetts. U.S.A.