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COLD WAR 28/51
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Transcript of interview with Alexei Kalashnikov, Soviet Strategic Missile Force, 1996
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- 1996 Sep (Creation)
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19pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Alexei Kalashnikov, Soviet Strategic Missile Force, relating to the creation of the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces, 1958; the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Soviet first strike capability, [1960-1969]; the Soviet opinion of the US strategic doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), 1967. 19pp
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