Zircon affair

Title

Zircon affair

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:03:55

Description

Interview with male Conservative MP (not identified), member of the Committee of Privileges, on the Zircon spy satellites affair; the BBC television documentary and injunction by the Freedom Association against its showing; dependence on American satellite systems to use Polaris and Trident nuclear weapons to protect the UK. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Politics; Margaret Thatcher; Right to information; BBC; Nuclear weapons; State security; Civil and political rights; Ronald Reagan; The Freedom Association; Official Secrets Act; Satellites; Polaris; Duncan Campbell; Zircon; Norris McWhirter; Michael Havers

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