Item NUCLEAR AGE 5/7 - Interview with foreign policy advisor Horst Osterheld, [1987]

Typescript transcript of interview with Horst Osterheld, confidant of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1963, relating to the impact of the Korean War in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950-1953; the European Defence Community (EDC), 1950-1954; relations between France and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950-1954; the rearmament and entry into NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1954; the Berlin crisis and the construction of the Berlin wall, Germany, Aug 1961; the adoption by the UK of the US Lockheed UGM-27 Polaris A1 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) as the UK independent nuclear deterrent, 1962; the Federal German reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962.