Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/42 - Interview with nuclear freeze campaigner Randall Forsberg, [1988]

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Randall Caroline Forsberg, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden, 1968-1979, founder of the US Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, 1980-1985, Director, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1979-1988, relating to 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; the origins of the US Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, 1980; the 'Ban the bomb' movement, [1958-1963]; the US anti-Vietnam War peace movement, 1965-1975; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; US defense policy during the Presidency of Ronald (Wilson) Reagan, 1981-1988; support for the US Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign from Senator Edward Moore Kennedy and Congressman Edward John Markey, 1981-1982; the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983-1986; the influence of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign on the US Presidential Election, Nov 1984; speculation on the forthcoming signing of the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, Jun 1988.