Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/130 - Interview with Jerome Wiesner, former Director of the Office of Science and Technology, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Jerome Bert Wiesner, Special Assistant to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Science and Technology, 1961-1964, and President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1971-1980, relating to the inaugural address by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Washington DC, USA, Jan 1961; the increase in the production of US Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), [1961-1962]; the Soviet resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, Sep 1961, and the US resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, Apr 1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, Oct 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963.