Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/107 - Interview with Dean Rusk, former Secretary of State, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with (David) Dean Rusk, US Assistant Secretary of State, 1950-1951, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969, and Sibley Professor of International Law, University of Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 1970-[1989], relating to the use, by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 and 9 Aug 1945; the role of the UN (United Nations) in postwar international relations, and in the enforcement of international law, 1947-1949; the US/Soviet arms race, 1946-1989; the deployment of US nuclear weapons in Europe, [1955]-1989; the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983-1986; 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 US nuclear strategy of counter force, attacking an enemy's nuclear and military forces instead of centres of population or economic targets, [1962].