Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/57 - Interview with Fred Ikle, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, [1987]

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NUCLEAR AGE 11/57

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Interview with Fred Ikle, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, [1987]

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  • [1987] (Creation)

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Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Fred Charles Iklé, Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1964-1967, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1973-1977, and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 1981-1987, relating to US defence policy during the administration of US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan, 1981-[1987]; the renewal of the defence contracts for the Rockwell International B-1A Lancer strategic bomber, and the Martin-Marietta MGM-118 (MX) Peacekeeper Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), [1981-1982]; the development and deployment of the US Lockheed UGM-93B Trident II D5 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), 1975-1989; the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983-1986.

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