Item NUCLEAR AGE 10/2 - Interview with politician Denis Healey, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Rt Hon Denis Winston Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1964-1970, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-1979, relating to the permanent basing of US troops in western Europe, 1950; the strategic doctrine of massive retaliation and the Defence White Paper, 1957; the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 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; the escalation in the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in western Europe, 1961-1962; the adoption by the USA and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967; the election of Richard Milhous Nixon to the US Presidency, and the adoption, under Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1973, and US Secretary of State, 1973-1977, of the policy of détente with the USSR, 1969-1975; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 1969-1972, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972; the speech by Helmut (Heinrich Waldemar) Schmidt, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London, on the consequences of the planned US deployment of General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) and MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missiles on German territory ('Euro-strategic missiles'), 7 Oct 1977.