Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/125 - Interview with Paul Warnke, former Chief US Arms Control Negotiator, [1986]

Typescript transcript of interview with Paul Culliton Warnke, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1967-1969, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Chief US Arms Control Negotiator, 1977-1978, and Special Counsel to Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, 1978-1980, relating to the US view of Soviet geopolitical intentions, 1977; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), 1974-1979; the reservations held by the US Committee on the Present Danger on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, 1979; US development of the Martin-Marietta MGM-118 (MX) Peacekeeper Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1974-1981; US development of the Boeing AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), [1975]-1981; the US arms control proposal offered to the USSR by Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of State, and Warnke, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1977; the character of Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; the increase in Soviet influence in Ethiopia and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), 1977-1978; 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; 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), Jun 1979; the deferment by the US Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jan 1980; 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 cancellation of the Rockwell International B-1A Lancer strategic bomber and the 'neutron bomb', a thermonuclear enhanced radiation tactical nuclear weapon, [1978].