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Typescript transcript of interview with Col Maxim Devetyarov, USSR Bomber Pilot .Subjects include his position and rank in 1983 as a senior navigator; USSR being prepared for war; Pershing II missile deployment; USSR commanders belief that there was a possibility of a conflict; USSR’s only bombers regiment and its relocation to Germany; the ability of the USSR planes to carry nuclear weapons; warnings about American provocation; high combat readiness, being prepared for take-off and the psychological pressure of high combat alert; the role of conventional and nuclear weapons; interest of Americans towards the bomber regiment; what he was doing during NATO exercises and his recollection of Able Archer in November 1983; tasks set to strategic bombers; his personal life; Original interview conducted in Russian; Typescript transcript in English. 27pp
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