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- 1987 Oct 27 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Fred Charles Iklé, Social Science Department, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA, 1955-1961, Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1964-1967, Head of Social Science Department, RAND Corporation, 1968-1973, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington DC, USA, 1973-1977, and Under Secretary for Policy, US Department of Defense, Washington DC, 1981-1988, relating to the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), 1974-1977; the US development and deployment of the MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missile, 1978-1983, and the General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM), 1978-1984; the adoption by US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan of the 'zero option', whereby the US would not deploy General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles and MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missiles if the USSR withdrew SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM), SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles and SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles from west of the Ural mountains, 1981; speculation on the forthcoming signing of the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, Jun 1988.
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