Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/89 - Interview with David Packard, former head of information technology company Hewlett-Packard and Deputy Secretary of Defense, [1986]

Typescript transcript of interview with David Packard, Chairman, Board of Directors, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, 1964-1968, 1972-1984, and US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1969-1971, relating to the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the US 'Safeguard' (previously known as 'Sentinel') anti ballistic missile (ABM) defence programme, of Nike X XLIM-49A Spartan and Sprint interceptor missiles, [1969-1970]; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1972; US military involvement in Vietnam, 1965-1975; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) [1968-1972]; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), 1974-1979; 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 Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (the ABM Treaty), May 1972.