Item NUCLEAR AGE 4/6 - Interview with Pierre Heisbourg, IISS Director, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Pierre Heisbourg, Director, International Institute of Strategic Studies, [1989], relating to the planned expansion of the British and French nuclear arsenal, [1989]; the existence and purpose of a British independent nuclear deterrent, [1989]; the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START I) between the USA and the USSR, 1982-1991; the signing of the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, and US President Ronald (Wilson) Reagan, Washington DC, USA, 8 Dec 1987; the deployment of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) nuclear and conventional forces in the Federal Republic of Germany, [1989]; the possibility of the reunification of Germany, [1989]; the announcement by Gorbachev to the United Nations (UN) of the withdrawal and demobilisation of large numbers of Soviet conventional forces in Eastern Europe, New York, USA, 7 Dec 1988; the future of US/Soviet arms control negotiations, [1989].