Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/88 - Interview with Joseph Nye, former Deputy Under Secretary, State Department, 1987

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr, Professor of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1969-1987, and Deputy Under Secretary, US State Department, 1977-1979, relating to the US Atoms for Peace programme, 1953; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the importance of nuclear non-proliferation as an issue in the US Presidential election campaign, 1976; US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter's Non-Proliferation Act, 1978; the development of Indian nuclear research, 1948-1974; the failure of US attempts to prevent the detonation of India's first nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974; the Arab oil embargo, 1973; speculation on future nuclear proliferation in Pakistan, Brazil and Argentina, 1987; the reaction in Japan to the US Non-Proliferation Act, 1978; the formation of the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation Group (INFCE), 1977; Pakistan's nuclear development programme, [1978]; speculation on Libyan funding for the Pakistani nuclear programme, [1978]; the cessation of all US economic and humanitarian aid to Pakistan, Apr 1979; the nuclear acident, resulting in the release of radioactive gases into the atmosphere, at the US nuclear power station at Three Mile Island, Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, USA, Mar 1979; the renewal of US aid to Pakistan following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1980; speculation on nuclear co-operation between Israel and South Africa, 1987; Operation BABYLON, the Israeli air attack on the Osirak nuclear research reactor, Al Tuwaitha, Iraq, 7 Jun 1981.