Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/65 - Interview with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1973, and US Secretary of State, 1973-1977, relating to the improvement in US/Soviet relations instigated at the beginning of the administration of US President Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969; the Soviet strategic programme to achieve parity with the USA in the number of nuclear weapons deployed, 1969; US involvement in the Vietnam War, 1969-1975; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1972; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) [1968-1972]; Kissinger's private negotiations on strategic arms limitation with Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, and with his deputy, Yuly Mikhailovich Vorontsov, 1969-1972; the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, and the signing of the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), by US President Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, May 1972; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the Watergate scandal, Washington DC, USA, 1972-1974; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), 1974-1979; the detonation of India's first nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974.