Item NUCLEAR AGE 12/10 - Interview with journalist Vladimir Bogachev, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Vladimir Bogachev, Soviet TASS (Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) Correspondent, New York, USA, relating to the Cuban Missile crisis, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; TASS reports during the Cuban Missile crisis, 1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the character of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964; the summit conference between US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Khrushchev, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; Bogachev's opinion of Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968; the nuclear doctrine of counterforce, emphasising limited nuclear strikes against an enemy's armed forces and not against civilian populations, 1962; 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].