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- [1989] (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with George Wildman Ball, Director, US Strategic Bombing Survey, 1944-1945, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, 1961, and US Under Secretary of State, 1961-1966, relating to the Nassau Agreement between US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Prime Minister Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, on the adoption by the UK of the US Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) as the UK independent nuclear deterrent, Nassau, New Providence Islands, the Bahamas, Caribbean, Dec 1962; the relationship between US President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan, Nassau, Dec 1962; the development of the French nuclear weapons programme, 1952-1960; the meeting between Ball and French President Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 1963; US plans for the creation of a Multilateral Force (MLF) in western Europe, [1964-1965]; the withdrawal of French forces from the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Military Committee, 1966; the US reaction to the French withdrawal from NATO, 1966.
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