Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/103 - Interview with Eugene Rostow, former Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Eugene Victor Rostow, Professor of Law, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1944-1984, Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-1965, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1966-1969, Chairman, Executive Committee, Committee on the Present Danger, 1976-1981, and Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1981-1983, relating to US foreign policy during the administration of US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, 1977-1981; the increase in Soviet and Cuban influence in Angola, Ethiopia and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), 1977-1978; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), 1974-1979; 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 reservations held by the US Committee on the Present Danger on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, 1979; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dec 1979; the deferment by the US Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, Jan 1980; 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; criticism of the role of Paul Culliton Warnke, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Chief US Arms Control Negotiator, during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II, 1974-1979; US development of the Martin-Marietta MGM-118 (MX) Peacekeeper Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1974-1981; US Presidential Directive 59 (PD 59) on the development of the US counter force strategy, of attacking an enemy's nuclear and military forces instead of centres of population or economic targets, in order to deter an enhanced Soviet first strike capability, Jul 1980; the official visit to the USA by Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USA and the People's Republic of China, Jan 1979.