Item NUCLEAR AGE 12/63 - Interview with physicist Evgeny Velikhov, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov, Soviet Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, 1961-1984, and Professor of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 1973-1986, relating to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), Jun 1979; the Soviet testing of anti-satellite weapons, [1986]; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine, USSR, Apr 1986; the Soviet aim to include the nuclear arsenals of the UK, France and the People's Republic of China in future arms reduction negotiations, [1986]; the summit meeting between US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan and Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, Reykjavik, Iceland, Nov 1986; the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983-[1989]; speculation on a moratorium on nuclear testing, [1987]; the rejection by the USSR of US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan's 'zero option', whereby the US would not deploy General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) and MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missiles if the USSR withdrew SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM), SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) and SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), from west of the Ural mountains, 1981.