Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/26 - Interview with former US President, Jimmy Carter, 1987

Typescript transcript of interview with James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, US President, 1977-1981, relating to Carter's desire to reduce the US nuclear arsenal during his administration, 1977-1981; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), Geneva, Switzerland, 1977-1979; Carter's meeting with US Senator Henry Martin 'Scoop' Jackson to discuss US-Soviet arms control negotiations, Feb 1977; US concern on the Soviet development and deployment of the SS-18 'Satan' Model 2 Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), equipped with eight to ten multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV), 1976-1977; US development of the Martin-Marietta MGM-118 (MX) Peacekeeper Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1974-1981; the visit of Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Washington DC, USA, Sep 1977; the opinions of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), 1977-1979; the increase in Soviet and Cuban influence in Ethiopia, 1977-1980; 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 signing of 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) by US President Carter and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR, Dec 1979; Carter's approval of renewed US aid to Pakistan and the sale of Uranium to India, 1980.