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- 1988 Mar 3 (Creation)
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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, and Director, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1979-1988, relating to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), Jun 1979; US and European peace and disarmament movements, [1978-1985]; US military involvement in the Korean War, 1950-1953, and in Vietnam, 1961-1975; Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 1979-1988; speculation on the possibility of future of nuclear disarmament, 1988; the US/Soviet arms race, 1945-1988; the history of US/Soviet arms control negotiations, 1945-1988; speculation on the forthcoming signing of the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, Jun 1988; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; the ideological conflict between the USA and the USSR, 1945-1988; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the reformist policies of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, and President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1988-1991; the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983-1986; speculation on the future demolition of the Berlin wall, Germany, 1988; the US Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, 1980-1988; the administration of US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan, 1981-1989.
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