Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/7 - Script for episode 7, The Nuclear Age, 'One step forward', 1989

Typescript transmission script of episode 7 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'One step forward', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 13 Feb 1989, relating to the US military involvement in Vietnam, 1961-1975; the election to the US Presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon, Nov 1968; the summit meeting between US President Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, May 1972; the conclusion of the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, and the signing of the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; the reduction in US forces deployed in Vietnam, 1971-1975; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) [1968-1972]; the election of US President Nixon to a second term in office, Nov 1972; the Watergate scandal, Washington DC, USA, 1972-1974; the resignation of US President Nixon, Aug 1974; including extracts of interviews with Richard Milhous Nixon, US President, 1969-1974; Aleksandr Yevgeniyevich Bovin, Soviet speechwriter for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982; Soviet Gen Yuriy Vladimirovich Lebedev, Counsellor, then Counsellor-Envoy, Soviet Embassy, Cuba, 1962-1968; Dr John Stuart Foster, Jr, US Director of Defense Research and Engineering; Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1973, and US Secretary of State, 1973-1977; Roland Timerbaev, Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Delegation [1969-1972]; Gerard C Smith, Chief US SALT Negotiator [1969-1972]; Vitaliy Vladimirovich Zhurkin, Soviet Analyst on Foreign Policy, 1968-1986; US Gen Royal Allison, US SALT Delegate from Joint Chiefs of Staff [1969-1972]; Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief Soviet SALT Negotiator [1969-1972]; Dr Raymond Leonard Garthoff, Senior Advisor to US SALT Negotiating Team [1969-1972]; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; Richard Norman Perle, Aide to US Senator Henry Martin 'Scoop' Jackson; US Adm Thomas H Moorer, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.