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Text of television interview between William Clark and Ismay on the day Ismay took over the office of Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) relating to this position and the work of NATO. Typescript, 10pp

Script by Ismay for film entitled 'Alliance for peace' relating to the aims of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Typescript, 1p

Script by Ismay for European service broadcast on the fifth anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty relating to the reasons for the formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and its aims. Typescript, 2pp

Script of broadcast for the Pacific service, 'Calling the islands - the Home Guard'. 1 item

Text of broadcast by Ismay from Brussels relating to the work of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in English and French. Typescript, 2pp

Text of broadcast by Ismay on BBC entitled 'Insurance for peace', North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) speech series no.41. Typescript, 3pp

Programme script for the television documentary The death of Yugoslavia, Programme 5: A safe area including picture, commentary, and subtitle information, relating to events in Bosnia and the role of the United Nations (UN) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), including UN Resolution 819 on the 'safe area' of Srebrenca, the Vance-Owen Plan for the divison of Bosnia, fighting between Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims; the deployment of Russian troops around Sarajevo, and the lead up to NATO bombing campaign (1993-1994). 45pp

Programme script for the television documentary The death of Yugoslavia, Programme 4: The gates of hell, including picture, commentary, and subtitle information, which focussed on the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina between Muslim, Serb and Croats including the ethnic cleansing of Zvornik, and the Serb attack on Sarajevo, the detention and release of Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic (1992). 46pp

Programme script for the television documentary The death of Yugoslavia, Programme 3: Wars of independence including picture, commentary, and subtitle information, relating to Croatia, its cessation from Yugoslavia, conflict between Croats and Serbs, the Carrington plan for a Yugoslav constitutional settlement, and the fall of Vukovar to Serb forces (1991). 47pp

Programme script for the television documentary The death of Yugoslavia, Programme 2: The road to war, including picture, commentary, and subtitle information, relating to the elections in Croatia (May 1990), the Serbian nationalism within Croatia and the Knin rebellion (1990), importing arms for the Croatian militia, and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's manoeuvres to gain control of the Yugoslav Federal army. 57pp

Programme script for the television documentary The death of Yugoslavia, Programme 1: Enter nationalism, including picture, commentary, and subtitle information, relating to events leading up to the disintegration of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia including the rise of Serbian and Slovenian nationalism, demonstrations in Kosovo (1987). 41pp

Television script for 'Why Defence' transmitted by, Scottish Television Ltd, 1 Nov 1974. Topics covered included The Cold War; NATO; Warsaw Pact; the balance of power; Russian ambitions in Europe; strengths of Western defences and the cost and the future of defence. Participants include Prof John Erickson, Gen Andrew J Goodpaster, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, AF Sir Peter Hill-Norton; Gen Sir Harry Tuzo, Commander-in-Chief BAOR; AM Sir Nigel Maynard, Commander-in-Chief RAF Germany; Adm Sir Terrence Lewin, Commander-in-Chief NATO Chanel Forces; Dr Joseph Luns, NATO Secretary General; Colin Humphries, NATO Secretary Defence and Policy Planning; Menaul, Director, Royal United Services Institute. 2 copies

Ismay's script for BBC broadcast in tribute to the life of Lt Gen Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart relating specifically to his service in Somaliland, 1914 and the incident which resulted in the loss of his eye; his appointment as head of the Military Mission to Poland, 1939 and as personal representative of Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill with Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek. Typescript

Typescript transmission script of episode 9 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'Carter's new world', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 27 Feb 1989, relating to the election to the US Presidency of James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, Nov 1976; negotiations between the USA and USSR on nuclear arms limitation during US President Carter's administration, 1977-1981; the cancellation of the Rockwell International B-1A Lancer strategic bomber [1978]; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977-1979; the US development of the Martin-Marietta MGM-118 (MX) Peacekeeper Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1974-1981; the appointment of Zbigniew (Kasimierz) Brzezinski as US National Security Adviser, 1977; 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 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 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; including extracts of interviews with Paul Culliton Warnke, Chief US Negotiator, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) [1974-1979]; Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, 1977-1980; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; Paul Henry Nitze, Head of the lobby group the Committee on the Present Danger [1976-1981]; Dr Harold Brown, US Secretary of Defense, 1977-1981; David Aaron, US Deputy Assistant to US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter for National Security Affairs, 1977-1981; Zbigniew (Kasimierz) Brzezinski, US National Security Adviser; Aleksandr Yevgeniyevich Bovin, Soviet speechwriter for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982; Soviet Gen Yuri Lebedev, Delegate to SALT II [1974-1979].

Typescript transmission script of episode 8 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'The haves and the have nots', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 20 Feb 1989, relating to the announcement of the US Atoms for Peace programme to share nuclear knowledge with other countries, 1953; the first Atoms for Peace Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955; the development of Indian nuclear research, 1948-1989; the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1957; the detonation of the first French nuclear weapon, Reggane, Algeria, Feb 1960; the detonation of the first Chinese nuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the deterioration in relations between the USSR and the People's Republic of China, 1967-1970; the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1968; the detonation of the first Chinese thermonuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Jun 1967; the Indo-Pakistan War, Dec 1971; 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; including extracts of interviews with Bertrand Goldschmidt, French Atomic Energy Commission; Raja Ramanna, Chairman, Indian Atomic Energy Commission; Professor Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Chairman, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1971; Roland Timerbaev, Soviet Foreign Ministry; Lakshmi Kant Jha, Secretary, Indian Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, 1960-1964; Myron Kratzer, US Atomic Energy Commission; US Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Defense Liaison Officer and Staff Secretary to US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1954-1961; Han Xu, Chinese Ambassador to the USA; George Bunn, General Counsel, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1961-1969; Chandra Shekhar Jha, Indian Foreign Secretary, 1965-1967; Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India; Homi Sethna, Chairman, Indian Atomic Energy Commission; Rt Hon Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, Chairman, British Delegation, UN Disarmament Committee; Morarji (Ranchhodji) Desai, Prime Minister of India; Agha Shahi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, 1972; Kandury Subrahmanyam, Indian Institute for Defence Studies; Dr Subramanian Swamy, Member of Indian Parliament; Pakistani Gen Agha Ibrahim Akram; Munir Khan, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of Pakistan; Joseph Nye, US Non-Proliferation Policy Advisor; Abdul Sattar, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan.

Typescript transmission script of episode 7 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'One step forward', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 13 Feb 1989, relating to the US military involvement in Vietnam, 1961-1975; the election to the US Presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon, Nov 1968; the summit meeting between US President Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, May 1972; the conclusion of the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, and the signing of the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; the reduction in US forces deployed in Vietnam, 1971-1975; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) [1968-1972]; the election of US President Nixon to a second term in office, Nov 1972; the Watergate scandal, Washington DC, USA, 1972-1974; the resignation of US President Nixon, Aug 1974; including extracts of interviews with Richard Milhous Nixon, US President, 1969-1974; Aleksandr Yevgeniyevich Bovin, Soviet speechwriter for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982; Soviet Gen Yuriy Vladimirovich Lebedev, Counsellor, then Counsellor-Envoy, Soviet Embassy, Cuba, 1962-1968; Dr John Stuart Foster, Jr, US Director of Defense Research and Engineering; Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1973, and US Secretary of State, 1973-1977; Roland Timerbaev, Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Delegation [1969-1972]; Gerard C Smith, Chief US SALT Negotiator [1969-1972]; Vitaliy Vladimirovich Zhurkin, Soviet Analyst on Foreign Policy, 1968-1986; US Gen Royal Allison, US SALT Delegate from Joint Chiefs of Staff [1969-1972]; Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief Soviet SALT Negotiator [1969-1972]; Dr Raymond Leonard Garthoff, Senior Advisor to US SALT Negotiating Team [1969-1972]; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; Richard Norman Perle, Aide to US Senator Henry Martin 'Scoop' Jackson; US Adm Thomas H Moorer, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Typescript transmission script of episode 6 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'The education of Robert McNamara', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 6 Feb 1989, relating to the appointment by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Robert Strange McNamara as US Secretary of Defense, 1961; the development of missiles as nuclear delivery systems and the decline in the role of manned aircraft [1961-1968]; the cancellation of the North American XB-70A Valkyrie strategic bomber project [1962]; the increased production and deployment of US LGM-30A Minuteman I Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) [1961-1963]; the construction of the Berlin wall, Berlin, Germany, Aug 1961; the rejection by McNamara of the US strategic policy of massive retaliation, 1961; the adoption by the USA and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967; the development of the nuclear doctrine of counterforce, emphasising limited nuclear strikes against an enemy's armed forces and not against civilian populations, 1962; development of the XLIM-49A Nike Zeus Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) system, 1963; the nuclear strategic doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), 1967; including extracts of interviews with Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary for Defense, 1961-1968; Alain C Enthoven, US First Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, 1965-1969; Henry S Rowen, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1961-1964; Professor William W Kaufmann, US Defense Department Consultant [1965]; Professor Albert Wohlstetter, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA, [1955]; US Gen Russell Dougherty, USAF; (David) Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969; Rt Hon Denis Winston Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1964-1970; French Général d'Armée André Beaufre, French Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; Genrikh ['Henry'] Aleksandrovich Trofimenko, Soviet political historian and consultant adviser to Soviet Government; Soviet Col Gen Nikolai Chervov; US Gen Kenneth Nichols, Director, US Army Research and Development; Jack Philip Ruina, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Department of Defense, 1961-1963; USAF Maj Gen Glenn A Kent, Military Assistant to Harold Brown, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 1962-1965; US Gen Earle G Wheeler, Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1964-1970; Dr Harold Brown, Director, US Defense Research and Engineering, 1961-1965.

Typescript transmission script of episode 5 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'At the brink', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 30 Jan 1989, relating to the election to the US Presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Nov 1960; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the construction of the Berlin wall, Berlin, Germany, Aug 1961; the deployment by the USSR of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) in Cuba, [Aug-Sep] 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; including extracts of interviews with Dave Powers, Aide to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Valentin Mikhailovich Falin, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1952-1971, and Soviet Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1971-1978; Aleksandr Alekseev, Soviet Ambassador to Cuba; McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to US Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1961-1966; Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968; Dr Ray Steiner Cline, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1962-1966; Theodore C Sorensen, Special Counsel to US President, 1960-1964; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; (David) Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969; Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1961-1964; US Adm George Waldo Anderson, Jr, US Chief of Naval Operations, 1961-1963; US Brig Gen Chester V Clifton, Military Aide to President Kennedy [1961-1963]; Vladimir Bogachev, Soviet TASS (Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) Correspondent, New York, USA; US Maj Gen William Fairbourne; Fedor Mikhailovich Burlatsky, Soviet Speechwriter for Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1958-1964; Roger Hilsman, Jr, Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, US State Department, 1961-1963, and Director of Intelligence, US State Department.

Typescript transmission script of episode 4 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'Europe goes nuclear', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 23 Jan 1989, relating to the Manhattan Project, the Anglo-US partnership to develop an atomic bomb, 1942-1945; the ratification by the US Congress of the Atomic Energy Act, ending nuclear co-operation between the USA and the UK, 1946; the construction of the first British nuclear reactor, Harwell, Oxfordshire, 1947; the detonation of the first British nuclear weapon, Operation HURRICANE, Trimouille Island, Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, Oct 1952; the development of the French nuclear weapons programme, 1952-1960; the Suez crisis, 1956; the detonation of the first British thermonuclear weapon, Operation GRAPPLE, Malden Island, Line Islands, Pacific Ocean, May 1957; the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1958; the detonation of the first French nuclear weapon, Reggane, Algeria, Feb 1960; the cancellation of the US Douglas Skybolt Air Launched Ballistic Missile (ALBM) programme and the adoption by the UK of the Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), 1960-1962; detonation of the first French thermonuclear weapon, Fangataufa Island, Tuamotu Islands, Pacific Ocean, Aug 1968; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) reliance on the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in the Federal Republic of Germany to deter a perceived Soviet threat, [1955-1989]; including extracts of interviews with Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Brig Kenneth Hunt, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Military Planner; Bertrand Goldschmidt, Nuclear Chemist; Maurice Schumann, French Deputy Foreign Minister; French Gen Pierre M Gallois, Nuclear Strategist; Sir Richard (Royle) Powell, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, 1956-1959; Reverend Dr Donald Oliver Soper, Baron Soper, founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; 1958; Pierre Messmer, French Minister of Defence; Valentin Mikhailovich Falin, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1952-1971, and Soviet Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1971-1978; George Wildman Ball, US Under Secretary of State, 1961-1966; Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968; Rt Hon Denis Winston Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1964-1970; US Gen John Richardson; Vladimir Borisovich Lomeyko, Head of Press Department, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1984-1986; West German Gen Graf Wolf von Baudissin; US Gen Frank Camm, Nuclear Planner, US Army; Egon Bahr, West German Social Democratic Party; Franz Josef Strauss, Defence Minister, Federal Republic of Germany, 1956-1962; Gen Gerd Schmuckle, Ministry of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany; Soviet Col Gen Nikolai Chervov; US Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Defense Liaison Officer and Staff Secretary to US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1954-1961.

Typescript transmission script of episode 3 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'A bigger bang for the buck', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 16 Jan 1989, relating to the election to the US Presidency of Dwight David Eisenhower, Nov 1952; US development of thermonuclear 'hydrogen' bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, 1952-1953; adoption of new US military strategy, 'The New Look', based on a reduction in conventional forces and an increased reliance on thermonuclear and tactical nuclear weapons, 1953; US nuclear tests, Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE, Nevada Test Centre, Nevada, USA, Mar-Jun 1953; the role and importance of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), USAF (US Air Force), 1952-1960; the summit conference between US President Eisenhower and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul 1955; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; first launch of the US General Dynamics Atlas Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), Apr 1958; the development of US Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM), [1955]-1959; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960; including extracts of interviews with Herbert Frank York, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California, USA, 1952-1958; Robert R Bowie, Chairman, Policy Planning Staff, US State Department, 1953-1957; US Adm Eugene Carroll; US Gen David Jones, Strategic Air Command (SAC); Soviet Col Gen Nikolai Chervov; Genrikh ['Henry'] Aleksandrovich Trofimenko, Soviet political historian and consultant adviser to Soviet Government; US Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Defense Liaison Officer and Staff Secretary to US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1954-1961; John Eisenhower, son of US President Eisenhower; Jerome B Wiesner, Special Assistant on Science and Technology to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1964; Robert Sprague, Co-Director, US Presidential Commission on Defense; Richard Milhous Nixon, US President, 1969-1974; US Adm Gerry Miller, Strategic Planner, US Navy; George W Rathjens, US President's Scientific Staff.