Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/129 - Interview with Jerome Wiesner, former Director of the Office of Science and Technology, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Jerome B Wiesner, Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1952-1962, Special Assistant on Science and Technology to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1964, and President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1979-1980, relating to the US nuclear strategy of counter force, attacking an enemy's nuclear and military forces instead of centres of population or economic targets, [1962]; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the cancellation of the North American XB-70A Valkyrie strategic bomber project [1962]; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972.