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- 1989 Mar 13 (Creation)
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Typescript transmission script of episode 11 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'Zero hour', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 13 Mar 1989, relating to the reduction in the numbers of tactical nuclear weapons deployed by the USA and the USSR, 1975-1988; the deterioration in relations between the USA and the European NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) members due to the deployment and potential use of tactical nuclear weapons to counter a Soviet invasion of western Europe, 1974-1988; the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), 1974-1977; US development of the 'neutron bomb', a thermonuclear enhanced radiation tactical nuclear weapon [1974-1978]; the US development and deployment 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; the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, UK, 1980-1985; the demonstrations in the Federal Republic of Germany against US nuclear weapons being sited on German territory, 1981; the adoption of the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament by the Labour Party, 1982; the death of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nov 1982; the summit meetings between US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan and Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, Reykjavik, Iceland, Nov 1986, and Washington DC, USA, Dec 1987; the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, Jun 1988; including extracts of interviews with Leslie Gelb, US State Department, 1977-1979; Soviet Gen Gely Batenin, Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces; Fedor Mikhailovich Burlatsky, Soviet Editor and Adviser to 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; Helmut (Heinrich Waldemar) Schmidt, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1974-1982; James (Rodney) Schlesinger, Cabinet of US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter; Zbigniew (Kasimierz) Brzezinski, US National Security Adviser; Lynn Etheridge Davis, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; Rt Hon (Leonard) James Callaghan, Prime Minister, 1976-1979; Edward Palmer Thompson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Hans Apel, Defence Minister, Federal Republic of Germany; Petra Kelly, Green Party, Federal Republic of Germany; Richard Burt, US State Department; Rt Hon David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1977-1979; Genrikh ['Henry'] Aleksandrovich Trofimenko, Soviet political historian and consultant adviser to Soviet Government; Richard Norman Perle, US Assistant Secretary of Defense; Soviet Col Gen Nikolai Chervov, Arms Negotiator; Georgiy Arkadevich Arbatov, Adviser to Gorbachev; Joe Joffe, Defence Analyst, Federal Republic of Germany; US Gen Bernard William Rogers, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR); Jurgen Turgenhofer, Christian Democratic Party, Federal Republic of Germany; Rt Hon Denis Winston Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1964-1970; Gennadi Ivanovich Gerasimov, Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman; Bruce Kent, Chairman, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
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