Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/99 - Interview with Marcus Raskin, former member of Special Staff, National Security Council, [1987]

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Marcus G Raskin, Member of the Special Staff, US National Security Council, 1961-1963, and Professor of Public Policy, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, [1987], relating to the Berlin crisis and the construction of the Berlin wall, Germany, Aug 1961; the US plan for a nuclear first strike by aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) against the USSR, 1961; the increase in the construction and deployment of US nuclear missiles under the policies of Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962.