Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/3 - Script for episode 3, The Nuclear Age, 'A bigger bang for the buck', 1989

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.