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NUCLEAR AGE 10/5
Title
Interview with Brigadier Kenneth Hunt, [1989]
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- [1989] (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Brig Kenneth Hunt, Specialist Adviser, House of Commons Defence Committee, 1971-1984, relating to the deployment by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of atomic artillery ammunition, 1955-1965; the development by the UK of tactical nuclear weapons, [1955-1965]; the reality of the perceived Soviet threat to western Europe, [1955-1965]; the adoption by the USA and NATO of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967; the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1958-1965; the purpose of the UK's independent nuclear deterrent, [1989].
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