Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/9 - Script for episode 9, The Nuclear Age, 'Carter's new world', 1989

Typescript transmission script of episode 9 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'Carter's new world', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 27 Feb 1989, relating to the election to the US Presidency of James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, Nov 1976; negotiations between the USA and USSR on nuclear arms limitation during US President Carter's administration, 1977-1981; the cancellation of the Rockwell International B-1A Lancer strategic bomber [1978]; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977-1979; the US development of the Martin-Marietta MGM-118 (MX) Peacekeeper Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1974-1981; the appointment of Zbigniew (Kasimierz) Brzezinski as US National Security Adviser, 1977; the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USA and the People's Republic of China, Jan 1979; the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II) on agreed limits on the numbers and testing of new types of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) by US President Carter and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the Iran hostage crisis, the capture of the US Embassy and sixty six US hostages by Iranian followers of the Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Nov 1979-Jan 1981; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dec 1979; the deferment by the US Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jan 1980; including extracts of interviews with Paul Culliton Warnke, Chief US Negotiator, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) [1974-1979]; Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, 1977-1980; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; Paul Henry Nitze, Head of the lobby group the Committee on the Present Danger [1976-1981]; Dr Harold Brown, US Secretary of Defense, 1977-1981; David Aaron, US Deputy Assistant to US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter for National Security Affairs, 1977-1981; Zbigniew (Kasimierz) Brzezinski, US National Security Adviser; Aleksandr Yevgeniyevich Bovin, Soviet speechwriter for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982; Soviet Gen Yuri Lebedev, Delegate to SALT II [1974-1979].