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Typescript transcript of interview in French with Pierre Auguste Joseph Messmer, French Minister for the Armed Forces, 1960-1969, Minister of State for Overseas Departments and Territories, 1972, and Prime Minister, 1972-1974, relating to the French nuclear development programme, 1954-1960; the administration of French Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, President of France, 1959-1969, the detonation of the first French nuclear weapon, Reggane, Algeria, Feb 1960; the Nassau Agreement between US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Prime Minister Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, on the adoption by the UK of the US Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) as the UK independent nuclear deterrent, Nassau, New Providence Islands, the Bahamas, Caribbean, Dec 1962; US plans for the creation of a Multilateral Force (MLF) in western Europe, [1964-1965]; the withdrawal of French forces from the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Military Committee, 1966.
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