Callaghan government nuclear weapons story

Title

Callaghan government nuclear weapons story

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Jan 1983

Year of production

1983

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:02:48

Description

Interview with Labour MP Denis Healey denying as completely false a story in the Sunday Times which claims senior ministers in the last Labour government and then Prime Minister James Callaghan agreed in 1978 to the deployment of Cruise and Pershing nuclear missiles and to US missile bases in the UK. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Denis Healey

Keywords

USA; Government; Labour Party; Newspapers; Press; UK; James Callaghan; Sunday Times; Prime ministers; Nuclear weapons; Defence policy; Missiles; Cabinet ministers; Military bases

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.