Item COLD WAR 27/70 - Transcript of interview with Lieutenant Colonel Calvin Payne, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Calvin Payne, former Lt Col, 39 Strategic Missile Sqn, USAF, [1962]-1968 and 1978-[1987], relating to the control room of a USAF Martin-Marietta LGM-25 C Titan II Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1962-1987; the launch procedures for the Titan II Missile, 1962-1987; the targetting of the Titan II Missile and the secrecy of the designated target in the USSR, 1962-1987; the role of the Titan II Missile in the security of the western alliance, 1962-1987; the accuracy of the Titan II Missile, 1962-1987; the US deployment of 56 Titan II Missiles, 1962-[1965]; Payne's opinion of the USSR during his USAF service, [1962-1987]; speculation on the possibility of a Soviet first strike against the USA, 1962-1987; the US deployment of the General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM) to Sicily, the Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium and the UK to counter the threat of the Soviet SS-20, 1984-1985. 14pp