Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/71 - Interview with Laurence Lynn, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, [1987]

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Laurence Edwin Lynn, Jr, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1965-1969, and member of the US National Security Council, 1969-1972, relating to the role and primary concerns of the US National Security Council at the beginning of US President Richard Milhous Nixon's administration, 1969; US involvement in the Vietnam War, 1969-1972; US foreign policy, 1969-1972; the National Security Council review of the USA's strategic position in the world, [1969-1970]; the policies of Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1973; the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 1969-1972; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) [1968-1972]; the Soviet development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles for the SS-9 'Scarp' Model 4 Heavy Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), [1969]-1971; the US invasion of Cambodia, May 1970.