John Nott on Navy cuts and nuclear defence

Title

John Nott on Navy cuts and nuclear defence

Genre

Interview

TX Date

30 Dec 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:03:32

Description

Interview with Defence Secretary John Nott as he defends spending cuts that will reduce the number of ships in the Royal Navy and talks about the controversial deployment of US nuclear Cruise missiles in defence of Europe and hopes for arms control talks between USA and Soviet Union. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

John Nott

Keywords

USA; Budgets; Cost reduction; UK; USSR; Nuclear weapons; Arms race; Defence policy; Europe; Missiles; Warships; Navy; National defence; International defence; East West relations

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