Item NUCLEAR AGE 12/12 - Interview with journalist Aleksandr Bovin, 1986 (duplicate)

Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Yevgeniyevich Bovin, editorial staff of the philosophy section Kommunist, 1959-1963, relating to US/Soviet arms control issues during the administration of US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, 1977-1981; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II) on agreed limits on the numbers and testing of new types of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Jun 1979; the official visit to the USA by Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USA and the People's Republic of China, Jan 1979; the increase in Soviet influence in Angola, Ethiopia and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), [1978-1980]; the deferment by the US Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jan 1980; US Presidential Directive 59 (PD 59) on the development of the US counter force strategy, of attacking an enemy's nuclear and military forces instead of centres of population or economic targets, in order to deter an enhanced Soviet first strike capability, Jul 1980; the summit meeting between US President Carter and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979. Copy of 12/11