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Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Raymond Leonard Garthoff, Senior Adviser and Executive Secretary to US Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) Delegation, and Deputy Director, Bureau of Political and Military Affairs, US State Department, 1969-1972, relating to US objectives during the SALT I negotiations, 1969-1972; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, Vienna, Austria, and Helsinki, Finland, 1969-1972; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), [1968-1972]; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; the opposition of US Senator Henry Martin 'Scoop' Jackson to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), 1972; Garthoff's removal from the US SALT Delegation, Jan 1973; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975.

Typescript transcript of interview with Arthur C Lundahl, Head of the US National Photographic Interpretation Center, 1962-1963, relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Lundahl's work as a reconnaissance photograph intelligence interpreter during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, Oct 1962; a briefing by Lundahl to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the photographic evidence of the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 16 Oct 1962; the leadership and character of US President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962.

Typescript transcript of interview with Kiyomi Sasaki, a patient at the Atom Bomb Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, relating to the detonation of the atomic bomb, dropped by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), on Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; the immediate aftermath of the detonation of the atomic bomb, Aug 1945; Sasaki's medical history, 1945-1987.

Typescript transcript of interview with Kiyomi Sasaki, a patient at the Atom Bomb Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, relating to the detonation of the atomic bomb, dropped by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), on Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; the immediate aftermath of the detonation of the atomic bomb, Aug 1945; Sasaki's medical history, 1945-1987. Copy of 8/8

Typescript transcript of interview with [Boris] Pyadishev, [Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs], relating to the Soviet opinion of the US Presidential election campaign of James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter. 1976; the meeting between Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1977; the summit meeting between Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and US President Gerald Rudolph Ford, Vladivostok, USSR, Nov 1974; the US.Soviet arms race, 1945-[1987].

Typescript transcript of interview with [Boris] Pyadishev, [Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs], relating to the Soviet opinion of the US Presidential election campaign of James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter. 1976; the meeting between Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1977; the summit meeting between Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and US President Gerald Rudolph Ford, Vladivostok, USSR, Nov 1974; the US.Soviet arms race, 1945-[1987].

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Boris Viktorovich Rauschenbach, Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, relating to the Soviet development of rocket technology, [1932]-1957; the Soviet operational use of Katyusha bombardment rockets, Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; the capture by the Red Army of German rocket scientists, 1945; the German development of the V2 bombardment rocket, 1942-1945; the Soviet development of the R-7 (SS-6 'Sapwood') ICBM, 1957; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites, Oct and Nov 1957.

Typescript transcript of interview with Brig Kenneth Hunt, Specialist Adviser, House of Commons Defence Committee, 1971-1984, relating to the deployment by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of atomic artillery ammunition, 1955-1965; the development by the UK of tactical nuclear weapons, [1955-1965]; the reality of the perceived Soviet threat to western Europe, [1955-1965]; the adoption by the USA and NATO of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967; the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1958-1965; the purpose of the UK's independent nuclear deterrent, [1989].

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Section Chief, Metallurgy Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1942-1946, Director of Nuclear and Chemical Research, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, 1946-1958 and 1972-1975, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, 1958-1961, and Chairman, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1971, relating to nuclear proliferation, 1945-[1987]; the US Atoms for Peace programme to share nuclear knowledge with other countries, 1953; the development of military and civilian uses for nuclear energy, 1945-[1987]; the first Atoms for Peace Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955; the Indian nuclear development programme, [1955]-1974; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the detonation of the first Chinese nuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; a visit by Seaborg, as Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, to Israel to discuss the Israeli nuclear development programme, 1966; the detonation of the first Chinese thermonuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Jun 1967; a meeting between Seaborg and Indian Prime Minister Indira (Priyadarshini)Gandhi on Indian nuclear policy, 1967; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the detonation of India's first nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974.

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Arthur (Patrick) Hockaday, Assistant Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1969-1972, relating to NATO's (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) strategy of flexible response, 1987; the NATO Nuclear Planning Group, 1977-1987; the US development and deployment in western Europe of the MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missile, 1978-1983, and the General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM), 1978-1984; speculation on the forthcoming signing of the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, Jun 1988.

Typescript transcript of interview with Clark McAdams Clifford, Special Counsel to US President Harry S Truman, 1946-1950, and US Secretary of Defense, 1968-1969, relating to the Truman Doctrine, the provision of US military and economic aid for any country threatened by Communism, Mar 1947; the Marshall Plan, the US Foreign Assistance Act to aid European Recovery after World War Two, 1948; the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 1947-1948; the Communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948; the Berlin airlift, Germany, 1948-1949; the deployment by US President Truman of nuclear capable Boeing B-29 Superfortresses to US bases in the UK during the Berlin airlift crisis, 1948; the US Presidential election campaign, 1948; the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1949; US President Truman's reaction to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949.

Typescript transcript of interview with Comte François Jean-Baptiste Hubert Edouard Marie de Tricornot de Rose, President, European Nuclear Research Organisation (CERN, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), 1958-1960, relating to the French nuclear development programme, 1954-1960; the French defeat by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, Indo-China, 1954; the Suez crisis, 1956; the detonation of the first British thermonuclear weapon, Operation GRAPPLE, Malden Island, Line Islands, Pacific Ocean, May 1957; the administration of French Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, President of France, 1959-1969; the withdrawal of French forces from the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Military Committee, 1966; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the adoption by the USA and NATO of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967.

Typescript transcript of interview with Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of the Army, 1962-1963, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1964-1967, and US Secretary of State, 1977-1980, relating to the US arms control proposal offered to the USSR by Vance as US Secretary of State, and Paul Culliton Warnke, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Chief US Arms Control Negotiator, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1977; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), Geneva, Switzerland, 1977-1979; the increase in Soviet and Cuban influence in Ethiopia, 1977-1980; the Soviet Tupolev Tu-26 'Backfire-B' bomber and whether the aircraft constituted a strategic nuclear delivery system, [1978]; the official visit to the USA by Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USA and the People's Republic of China, Jan 1979; the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II) on agreed limits on the numbers and testing of new types of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) by US President Carter and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dec 1979; the deferment by the US Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jan 1980.

Typescript transcript of interview with David Aaron, US Deputy Assistant to US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter for National Security Affairs, 1977-1981, relating to the US arms control proposal offered to the USSR by Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, and Paul Culliton Warnke, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Chief US Arms Control Negotiator, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1977; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), Geneva, Switzerland, 1977-1979; US development of the Martin-Marietta MGM-118 (MX) Peacekeeper Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1974-1981; the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II) on agreed limits on the numbers and testing of new types of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) by US President Carter and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the increase in Soviet and Cuban influence in Ethiopia, 1977-1980; the visit to Ethiopia by Aaron and his meeting with Ethiopian President Col Mengistu Haile Mariam, 1978; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dec 1979; the official visit to the USA by Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USA and the People's Republic of China, Jan 1979; the Iran hostage crisis, the capture of the US Embassy and sixty six US hostages by Iranian followers of the Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Nov 1979-Jan 1981; the deferment by the US Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jan 1980; US Presidential Directive 59 (PD 59) on the development of the US counter force strategy, of attacking an enemy's nuclear and military forces instead of centres of population or economic targets, in order to deter an enhanced Soviet first strike capability, Jul 1980.

Typescript transcript of interview with David Packard, Chairman, Board of Directors, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, 1964-1968, 1972-1984, and US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1969-1971, relating to the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the US 'Safeguard' (previously known as 'Sentinel') anti ballistic missile (ABM) defence programme, of Nike X XLIM-49A Spartan and Sprint interceptor missiles, [1969-1970]; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1972; US military involvement in Vietnam, 1965-1975; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) [1968-1972]; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), 1974-1979; the Soviet development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles for the SS-9 'Scarp' Model 4 Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), [1969]-1971; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972.

Typescript transcript of interview with (David) Dean Rusk, US Assistant Secretary of State, 1950-1951, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969, and Sibley Professor of International Law, University of Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 1970-[1989], relating to the use, by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 and 9 Aug 1945; the role of the UN (United Nations) in postwar international relations, and in the enforcement of international law, 1947-1949; the US/Soviet arms race, 1946-1989; the deployment of US nuclear weapons in Europe, [1955]-1989; the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983-1986; the reformist policies of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, and President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1988-1991; the US nuclear strategy of counter force, attacking an enemy's nuclear and military forces instead of centres of population or economic targets, [1962].

Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksey Aleksandrovich Roshchin, Soviet Diplomatic Service and Foreign Ministry, 1936-1966, relating to the Soviet opinion of the formation of the United Nations Organisation, San Francisco, California, USA, Jun 1945; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946; the Korean War, 1950-1953; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the Cuban Missile crisis, Oct 1962.

Typescript transcript of interview with Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, Ambassador to the USA, 1953-1956, Joint Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, 1956-1959, and Chairman, UK Atomic Energy Agency, 1960-1964, relating to the US Atoms for Peace programme, 1953; the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1957; the provision by the UK of technical assistance to Commonwealth countries embarking on nuclear programmes, [1953-1965]; the British reaction to the detonation of the first Chinese nuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the detonation of India's first nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974; Operation BABYLON, the Israeli air attack on the Osirak nuclear research reactor, Al Tuwaitha, Iraq, 7 Jun 1981; British concerns on the possible use of nuclear weapons by US forces during the Korean War, 1950-1953; the inauguration of the Cyrus nuclear reactor, Trombay, India, 1961; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the role of Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1945-1951, in securing the involvement of the USA in the defence of western Europe, 1947-1949; the impact of the US Atomic Energy Act (the MacMahon Act), ending nuclear co-operation between the USA and the UK, 1946; the detonation of the first British thermonuclear weapon, Operation GRAPPLE, Malden Island, Line Islands, Pacific Ocean, May 1957; the reaction in Washington DC, USA, to the news of the detonation of the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950; the Cuban missile crisis, Oct 1962.

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Frank (Kenyon) Roberts, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954-1957, to the USSR, 1960-1962, and to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1963-1968, relating to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, and the subsequent participation of the USA in World War Two, 1941-1945; the Warsaw Rising, Poland, Aug-Oct 1944; the Yalta Conference (codenamed ARGONAUT), attended by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Yalta, Crimea, USSR, 4-11 Feb 1945; the development of strategic bombing of enemy centres of population, [1936]-1945; the impact of the use, by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 and 9 Aug 1945; the Berlin airlift, Germany, 1948-1949; the appointment of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953; the impact in the UK to the announcement of the Truman Doctrine, the provision of US military and economic aid for any country threatened by Communism, Mar 1947, and the Marshall Plan, the US Foreign Assistance Act to aid European Recovery after World War Two, 1948; the Communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948.

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Frank (Kenyon) Roberts, Ambassador to the USSR, 1960-1962, Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1963-1968, and President, British Atlantic Committee, 1968-1981, relating to the role of Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1945-1951, in securing the involvement of the USA in the defence of western Europe, 1947-1949; the influence of the outbreak of the Korean War, 25 Jun 1950, on the permanent basing of US troops in western Europe, 1950; the development of the British atomic bomb, 1946-1952; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Lisbon Conference, Portugal, 1952; the commitment by the UK to permanently garrison troops in Europe, 1954; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and incorporation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1954; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites, Oct and Nov 1957; the appointment of Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle as President of France, 1958; the Nassau Agreement between US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Prime Minister Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, on the adoption by the UK of the US Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) as the UK independent nuclear deterrent, Nassau, New Providence Islands, the Bahamas, Caribbean, Dec 1962.