Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/5 - Interview with journalist Joseph Alsop, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Joseph Wright Alsop Jr, author and journalist with The New York Herald Tribune, 1932-1935 and 1945-1958, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, 1958-1974, relating to the Berlin airlift, Germany, 1948-1949; the deployment by US President Harry S Truman of nuclear capable Boeing B-29 Superfortresses to US bases in the UK during the Berlin airlift crisis, 1948; the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949; the Korean War, 1950-1953; the Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and the reduction in production of strategic bombers, 1956-1958; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites, Oct and Nov 1957; the US development of the Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), [1955-1960].