Item COLD WAR 28/55 - Transcript of interview with Admiral Nikolay Usenko, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Adm Nikolay Idalich Usenko, relating to the Soviet development of a navy that could compete with the US Navy, 1956-1989; the development of nuclear powered submarines by the US Navy, 1952-1964; US development of Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), [1955]-1959; the fire on board the Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine K-19, in the North Atlantic Ocean, 24 Feb 1972; the collision between the USS TAUTOG, a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, and K-108, a Soviet Echo II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, Jun 1970; Soviet submarine patrols, [1960-1969]; the US naval blockade of Cuba, Oct 1962; the forcing to the surface of a Soviet submarine by the US Navy durng the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; US/Soviet tension in the Indian Ocean during the Indo-Pakistan War, 1965; the ideological differences between the USSR and the USA, [1960-1969]; the Palomares incident, the collision of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and a Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft over Spain resulting in the loss of the two aircraft and the crash landing of four thermonuclear weapons, Jan 1966; the financial burden of the nuclear arms race on the USSR, 1945-1991. 19pp