Item NUCLEAR AGE 5/3 - Interview with Graf Wolf von Baudissin, former Director of the Institute of Peace Research, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Graf Wolf von Baudissin, Director, Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, 1971-1984, relating to the European Defence Community (EDC), 1950-1954; the rearmament and entry into NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1954; the NATO Exercise CARTE BLANCHE, 1955; the creation of the Bundeswehr, 1955; the US strategic policy of massive retaliation, 1954-1960; the increased deployment of US tactical nuclear weapons in western Europe, [1957-1960]; the British Army's 'Land Battle Doctrine', 1960; the adoption by the USA and NATO of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967.