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Nuclear arms race (1979)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on the nuclear arms race and the need for unilateral disarmament between NATO countries and the Soviet Union.

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Bruce Kent profile (1984)

An interview with the Roman Catholic priest and CND founder Bruce Kent, who talks about Greenham Common and the nuclear arms race.

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Michael Foot on nuclear arms race (1981)

Genre

Speech

Labour Party leader Michael Foot speech in Brighton on Britain’s responsibility to restrain the Soviet Union and the USA in the nuclear arms race.

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Nuclear arms race fault of NATO (1985)

Genre

Interview

Paul Maurice interviews an unidentified male Soviet speaker (poss. Tair Tairov, Soviet World Peace Council official) on the nuclear arms race, blaming NATO for the speeding up of the arms race, and on hopes...

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Donald Rumsfeld on arms race (1976)

Genre

Press conference

Press conference with US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on the Nuclear Planning Group of NATO, the arms race, and SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks).

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Reagan addresses nation on defence (1983)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on the address to the nation by US President Ronald Reagan on defence spending cuts, arms race and hopes to develop defensive laser weapons rendering any nuclear weapon useless (Star Wars or SDI...

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E. P. Thompson on nuclear threat (1980)

Genre

Interview

Historian and peace campaigner E. P. Thompson on how the UK’s nuclear deterrent and the international arms race is making nuclear war increasingly more likely. Female interviewer not identified.

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British arms sales (1984)

Genre

Interview

Paul Maurice interviews UK Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine, on the sale of arms to foreign countries, the benefit to the economy, and controversy over sales to despotic regimes. The interview coincides...

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Mikhail Gorbachev on summit failure (1986)

Genre

Speech

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev (via an interpreter) following the end of the failed Iceland summit. Includes his view that the arms race has approached a...

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NATO arms talks in Geneva (1981)

Genre

News report

Report on arms limitation talks in Geneva and the background to them. Female reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio