Item BRINK OF APOCALYPSE 5/3 - Interview with Gene Gay, Nuclear Planner, Able Archer, NATO, [2007]

Typescript transcript interview with Gene Gay, Nuclear Planner, Able Archer, NATO. Subjects include his role as Chief of the Selective Employment Team for the Nuclear Operations branch within NATO, in 1983; what kind of military exercise Able Archer was; his role focusing on nuclear weapons release; the staff structure of peacetime establishment and war time headquarters staff; the Able Archer script and the aim of Able Archer; war time planning location for the crisis preparation schedule; vault layout; the testing deployment of Pershing II missiles; the use of conventional and chemical weapons as well as nuclear in Able Archer; the attitude towards Able Archer from staff; NATO as a defensive organisation; his role to gather information from different sources; seriousness of the exercise as perceived by US, Britain and Germany; use of post-World War II methods; relief and sense of accomplishment after NATO exercises. 49pp.Contains duplicate (without annotations)