Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/2 - Script for episode 2, The Nuclear Age, 'The weapon of choice', 1989

Typescript transmission script of episode 2 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'The weapon of choice', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 9 Jan 1989, relating to the origins of the Cold War and the deterioration of relations between the USSR and the USA, 1945-1946; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946; US atomic tests, Operation SANDSTONE, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Apr-May 1948; the Berlin airlift, Germany, 1948-1949; the foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Apr 1949; the development of Soviet nuclear weapons, 1945-1949, and the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949; US development of thermonuclear weapons, 1949-1952; the Korean War, 1950-1953; detonation of the first US hydrogen bomb, Operation IVY, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Nov 1952; detonation of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1953; including extracts of interviews with Clark McAdams Clifford, Special Counsel to US President Harry S Truman, 1946-1950; Genrikh ['Henry'] Aleksandrovich Trofimenko, Soviet political historian and consultant adviser to the Soviet Government; Soviet Lt Gen Mikhail Milshtein; Sergei Policknov, Soviet Physicist; Sergei Kapitza, Soviet Physicist; R Gordon Arneson, US State Department; Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Federation of Atomic Scientists; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; Professor John Frederick Manley, Deputy Director, Los Alamos Laboratory, New Mexico, USA; Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe, Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; Sir Frank (Kenyon) Roberts, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Ambassador to the USSR, 1960-1962; Soviet Col Gen Nikolai Chervov; US Gen Kenneth Nichols, Chief of US Armed Forces Special Weapons Project; Professor Edward Teller, Physicist; Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi, General Advisory Committee to the US Atomic Energy Commission, 1952-1974; Norris Bradbury, Director, Los Alamos Laboratory, New Mexico, USA; Paul Henry Nitze, Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, US Defense Department, 1961-1963; Han Xu, Chinese Ambassador to the USA; John Eisenhower, son of US President Dwight David Eisenhower.