Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/49 - Interview with Leslie Gelb, former Deputy Director of Policy Planning, Department of Defense, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Leslie Gelb, Deputy Director of Policy Planning, US Department of Defense, 1967-1968, Director of Robert Strange McNamara's, US Secretary of Defense, Vietnam Task Force, 1967-1968, Director of Policy Planning, US Department of Defense, 1968, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning and Arms Control Staff, 1968-1969, correspondent with The New York Times, 1973-1977, and Director, Bureau of Political and Military Affairs, US State Department, 1977-1979, relating to the US deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in western Europe, 1978-1984; the US development of the General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM), 1978-1984; 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; US development of the 'neutron bomb', a thermonuclear enhanced radiation tactical nuclear weapon [1974-1978]; the summit meeting between Chancellor Helmut (Heinrich Waldemar) Schmidt, Federal Republic of Germany, Prime Minister Rt Hon (Leonard) James Callaghan, US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Guadeloupe, Caribbean, 1979; the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), 1974-1977.