Item COLD WAR 28/47 - Transcript of interview with Lieutenant General Nikolay Detinov, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Lt Gen Nikolay Nikolaevich Detinov, General Staff Officer, Soviet Armed Forces, relating to the Soviet opinion on the consequences of a nuclear war with the USA, [1961-1969]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the US nuclear doctrine of counterforce, emphasising limited nuclear strikes against an enemy's armed forces and not against civilian populations, 1962; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), [1968-1972]; the effect of the US/Soviet arms race on the living standard of the Soviet population, [1963-1989]; the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the Soviet development of military technology originally deployed by the USA, such as nuclear weapons, Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) and multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), 1946-1975; Soviet development of the R-7 (SS-6 'Sapwood') Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), and the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, 1953-1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), 1969-1972; the successes of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972. 23pp