Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/44 - Interview with John Foster, former Director of Defence Research and Engineering, Department of Defense, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr John Stuart Foster, Jr, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, US Defense Department, 1965-1973, relating to the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the US strategic review and assessment of its world strength, 1969; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the US military involvement in Vietnam, 1969; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I), 1969-1972; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) [1968-1972]; the US anti-ballistic missile development programme, [1969-1970]; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972.