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- 1989 Mar 20 (Creation)
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Typescript transmission script of episode 12 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'Visions of peace', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 20 Mar 1989, relating to an increase in US spending on research and development on strategic weapons and equipment during the Presidency of Ronald (Wilson) Reagan, 1981-1989; the exploitation of space for military purposes via the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), 1983-1989; the Soviet belief that the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) would create another arms race between the USA and the USSR, 1984-1989; the future of nuclear weapon technology, arms control and proliferation, 1988-1989; including extracts of interviews with Albert Carnesale, US National Security Consultant; Richard Norman Perle, US Assistant Secretary of Defense; Dr George Albert Keyworth II, Science Adviser to US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan; Professor Edward Teller, Physicist; Charles Brau, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA; Roger Warren, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA; Ashton Carter, US Defense Department Consultant; Gennadi Ivanovich Gerasimov, Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman; US Lt Gen James A Abrahamson, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) [1983-1989]; Herbert Frank York, member of US President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957-1968; Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968; Soviet Col Gen Nikolai Chervov; Rt Hon Sir John (William Frederic) Nott, Secretary of State for Defence, 1981-1983; Francois Heisbourg, Director, International Institute of Strategic Studies; Genrikh ['Henry'] Aleksandrovich Trofimenko, Soviet political historian and consultant adviser to Soviet Government; Rt Hon Sir (Richard Edward) Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1983-1989; US Senator Les Aspin; McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to US Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1961-1966; Jean-Pierre Chevenement, French Minister of Defence; Rt Hon George (Kenneth Hotson) Younger, Secretary of State for Defence, 1986-1989; (David) Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969; Rt Hon Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Prime Minister, 1979-1990; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; Georgiy Arkadevich Arbatov, 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.
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