Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/6 - Script for episode 6, The Nuclear Age, 'The education of Robert McNamara', 1989

Typescript transmission script of episode 6 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'The education of Robert McNamara', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 6 Feb 1989, relating to the appointment by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Robert Strange McNamara as US Secretary of Defense, 1961; the development of missiles as nuclear delivery systems and the decline in the role of manned aircraft [1961-1968]; the cancellation of the North American XB-70A Valkyrie strategic bomber project [1962]; the increased production and deployment of US LGM-30A Minuteman I Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) [1961-1963]; the construction of the Berlin wall, Berlin, Germany, Aug 1961; the rejection by McNamara of the US strategic policy of massive retaliation, 1961; the adoption by the USA and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967; the development of the nuclear doctrine of counterforce, emphasising limited nuclear strikes against an enemy's armed forces and not against civilian populations, 1962; development of the XLIM-49A Nike Zeus Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) system, 1963; the nuclear strategic doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), 1967; including extracts of interviews with Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary for Defense, 1961-1968; Alain C Enthoven, US First Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, 1965-1969; Henry S Rowen, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1961-1964; Professor William W Kaufmann, US Defense Department Consultant [1965]; Professor Albert Wohlstetter, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA, [1955]; US Gen Russell Dougherty, USAF; (David) Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969; Rt Hon Denis Winston Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1964-1970; French Général d'Armée André Beaufre, French Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; Genrikh ['Henry'] Aleksandrovich Trofimenko, Soviet political historian and consultant adviser to Soviet Government; Soviet Col Gen Nikolai Chervov; US Gen Kenneth Nichols, Director, US Army Research and Development; Jack Philip Ruina, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Department of Defense, 1961-1963; USAF Maj Gen Glenn A Kent, Military Assistant to Harold Brown, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 1962-1965; US Gen Earle G Wheeler, Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1964-1970; Dr Harold Brown, Director, US Defense Research and Engineering, 1961-1965.