Item COLD WAR 28/48 - Transcript of interview with General Yuri Vontintsev, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Yuri Vsevolovich Vontintsev, [Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces], relating to the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the US bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Aug 1945; the 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA, 5 Mar 1946; the Soviet development of the atomic bomb, 1945-1949; the deployment of the Soviet ABM system around Moscow, USSR, 1963-1964; the US ABM development programme, 1959-[1972]; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), [1968-1972]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956, and in Czechoslovakia, 1968. 19pp