Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/114 - Interview with Gerard Smith, chief US negotiator for SALT 1, [1986]

Typescript transcript of interview with Gerard C Smith, US Assistant Secretary of State and Director of Policy Planning, 1957-1961, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1968-1972, Chief US Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) Negotiator, 1969-1972, US Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1977-1980, relating to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, Vienna, Austria, and Helsinki, Finland, 1969-1972; US military involvement in Vietnam, 1969-1972; US 'Safeguard' (previously known as 'Sentinel') anti ballistic missile (ABM) defence programme, of Nike X XLIM-49A Spartan and Sprint interceptor missiles, [1969-1970]; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) [1968-1972]; the US mining of Haiphong harbour, Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam, May 1972; the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, and the signing of the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), by US President Richard Milhous Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, May 1972; the opinion of US Senator Henry Martin 'Scoop' Jackson on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), 1972; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), 1974-1979; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972].