Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/48 - Continuation of interview with US Lieutenant General James Gavin, 1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with US Lt Gen James Maurice Gavin, Army Member, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, 1949-1955, Chief of Research and Development, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, 1955-1958, and US Ambassador to France, 1961-[1963], relating to US development of tactical nuclear weapons, 1952-1953; the role and importance of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), USAF (US Air Force), 1952-1960; the adoption of the new US military strategy, 'The New Look', based on a reduction in conventional forces and an increased reliance on thermonuclear and tactical nuclear weapons, 1953; US development of the Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), 1954-1957; the deployment of US tactical nuclear weapons in western Europe to counter the perceived threat of a Soviet invasion, [1955-1962].