Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/58 - Interview with Fred Ikle former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Oct 1987

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.