Item NUCLEAR AGE 10/14 - Interview with diplomat Sir Frank Roberts, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Frank (Kenyon) Roberts, Ambassador to the USSR, 1960-1962, Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1963-1968, and President, British Atlantic Committee, 1968-1981, relating to the role of Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1945-1951, in securing the involvement of the USA in the defence of western Europe, 1947-1949; the influence of the outbreak of the Korean War, 25 Jun 1950, on the permanent basing of US troops in western Europe, 1950; the development of the British atomic bomb, 1946-1952; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Lisbon Conference, Portugal, 1952; the commitment by the UK to permanently garrison troops in Europe, 1954; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and incorporation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1954; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites, Oct and Nov 1957; the appointment of Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle as President of France, 1958; the Nassau Agreement between US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Prime Minister Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, on the adoption by the UK of the US Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) as the UK independent nuclear deterrent, Nassau, New Providence Islands, the Bahamas, Caribbean, Dec 1962.