Item COLD WAR 27/81 - Transcript of interview with US Secretary of Defense Dr Harold Brown, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Harold Brown, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California, USA, 1960-1961, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, US Department of Defense, 1961-1965, US Secretary of the Air Force, 1965-1969, member of US Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I and II (SALT I and II), 1969-1977, and US Secretary of Defense, 1977-1981, relating to the US nuclear doctrine of massive retaliation, 1954-1960; the changes in US policy during the administration of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the theory of nuclear deterrence, 1961-1963; the threat of Soviet conventional superiority in Europe, 1961-1963; the US strategic policy of flexible response, 1961; the unpopularity with the US public of civil defence programmes, 1977-1981; US reaction to the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961; the moratorium on nuclear testing between the USA and USSR, Nov 1959-Sep 1961; the development by the USA and the USSR of anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs) and multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), 1959-1972; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the USA and USSR, Helsinki, Finland, 1969; the limitation of MIRVs in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), Jul 1991; the relationship between US and Soviet arms control negotiators, 1977-1981; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972. 38pp