Item NUCLEAR AGE 10/19 - Interview with politician George Younger, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Rt Hon George Kenneth Hotson Younger, Secretary of State for Defence, 1986-1989, relating to the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, Jun 1988; the possibility of the future removal of tactical nuclear weapons from Europe, [1989]; the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START I) between the USA and the USSR, 1982-1991; the possibility of the inclusion of British and French independent nuclear weapons in arms control negotiations between the USA and the USSR, [1989]; the adoption by the UK of the US Lockheed UGM-93B Trident II D5 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), Mar 1982; the existence and purpose of a British independent nuclear deterrent, [1989]; the deployment of US tactical nuclear weapons on West German territory, [1989]; the reformist policies of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, and President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1988-1991; the announcement by Rt Hon Sir (Richard Edward) Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, [1989], of the withdrawal by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of conventional forces in Europe to match Soviet reductions announced by Gorbachev to the United Nations (UN), New York, USA, 7 Dec 1988; the future of US/Soviet arms control negotiations, [1989].