Item NUCLEAR AGE 4/9 - Interview with Maurice Schumann, former French deputy Foreign Secretary, [1987]

Typescript transcript of interview with Maurice Schumann, French Deputy Foreign Secretary, 1951-1954, Minister of State for Scientific Research, 1967-1968, Minister for Social Affairs, 1968-1969, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1969-1973, relating to US Gen of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower's service as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR), at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), 1950-1952; the impact of the Korean War in France, 1950-1953; the European Defence Community (EDC), 1950-1954; the agreement by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of the 'Lisbon Force Goals', the minimum forces required to defend western Europe against an attack by the USSR, 1952; the French reaction to the detonation of the first British nuclear weapon, Operation HURRICANE, Trimouille Island, Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, Oct 1952; the opinion in France on the deployment and basing of US forces in western Europe, 1954; the rearmament and entry into NATO of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1954; the French defeat by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, Indo-China, 1954; the rumour that John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State, 1953-1959, offered France US atomic bombs to use in Indo-China following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, 1954; the French nuclear development programme, 1954-1960; the Suez Crisis and the deterioration in US/French relations, 1956; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites, Oct and Nov 1957; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), 1969-1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983-1986.