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Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Lynn Davis, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning, [1977-1981], relating to the speech by Helmut (Heinrich Waldemar) Schmidt, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London, on the consequences of the planned US deployment of General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) and MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missiles on German territory ('Euro-strategic missiles'), 7 Oct 1977; the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), 1974-1977; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) decision to deploy US Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) and Pershing II tactical missiles in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1979; the belief in the Federal Republic of Germany that the US deployment of Pershing II missiles was in order to contain any nuclear war with the USSR to Europe and to exclude the US mainland, 1979-1983.
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