Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/4 - Script for episode 4, The Nuclear Age, 'Europe goes nuclear', 1989

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.