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WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Christy George reports that F.W. de Klerk, the President of South Africa, announced that the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa will be lifted, and Nelson …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Upon his release, Carmen Fields interviews South African exiles Themba Vilakazi and Janet Levine about the life and political development of Nelson Mandela. Vilakazi and Levine discuss Mandela's beginnings as …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Meg Vaillancourt interviews Nthabiseng Mabuza about the release of Nelson Mandela. Vaillancourt notes that Mabuza was only twelve years old when she was paralyzed from injuries sustained during an attack …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English
Meg Vaillancourt talks to students at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Dorchester about their opinions of Nelson Mandela (black South African leader). The students tell what they know …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1988 English
Christy George reports that Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to divest its pension funds from South Africa five years ago. She adds that apartheid opponents are backing …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Cyrus Vance was the Secretary of the Army from 1962-1964, the Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1964-1967, and the Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1977-1980. In the interview …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Joseph Nye was Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistant, Science and Technology, and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1977 to 1979). …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Kandury Subramanvan (Subrahmanyam) was an official in Indias Ministry of Defense. In the interview, he offers his views on Chinas 1964 test, determining immediately that India should get a device …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Mordekhai Gur was a military officer who served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from 1974-1978, then became a member of the Knesset. He discusses his …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Homi Sethna was a leading Indian nuclear scientist who served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (1972-1983) during which time he was centrally involved with the test …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
For nearly half a century, Paul Nitze was one of the chief architects of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union, and a prominent member of the Committee on the Present …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Yuval Ne'eman was an Israeli theoretical physicist, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1962-1984, and Minister of Science from 1982-1984. In the interview he discusses Israel's nuclear program …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Yitzhak Rabin was the Israeli Minister of Defense from 1984-1990, and later Prime Minister. In the interview he discusses Israel's nuclear policy. He explains that Israel's policy is that it …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States, from 1977 to 1981. In the interview Carter conducted for War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, he relates his …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Matityahu Peled was a member of the Knesset, a General in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), and a professor of Arabic Studies, at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. In …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Agha Shahi was Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations from 1967-1972, then Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1973-1982 (with a short break in between). In …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Dr. Munir Ahmad Khan was a nuclear engineer, who chaired the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 1972-1991. The interview opens with his background and the early years of Pakistans nuclear …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Muchkund Dubey spent most of his career in Indias foreign service, rising to become Foreign Secretary in 1990. His involvement with nuclear matters began in 1982 when he was named …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Paul Warnke was chief negotiator for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II during the Jimmy Carter administration and director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1977 to …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Vladimir Semyonov (Semenov) was the first Soviet Ambassador to East Germany, a Deputy Foreign Minister, and Chief Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Negotiator, 1969-1972. He recounts why the USSR …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Roland Timerbaev, a world expert in the area of nuclear non-proliferation, served on the Soviet delegation of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) and was deputy director of the USSR …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Richard Pipes was a history professor at Harvard University who took part in the 1976 Team B study of the Soviet military threat and later served as Director of East …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Alexsandr Krasulin was associated for many years with the Soviet Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. He opens with a discussion of nonproliferation, calling it the only area of common …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, was national security adviser to U.S. president Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. In the interview he conducted for War and Peace …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Marshall Shulman was the founding director of the W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advance Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University, and served as special adviser on Soviet Affairs …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
General Pierre-Marie Gallois, often regarded as the father of the French nuclear strategy, served with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and with French president Charles de Gaulle. In …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Eugene Rostow, a Yale law professor, served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1966-1969 and Chairman of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) from 1981-1983. In …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Lord Roger Sherfield (Roger Makins) spent most of his career in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving as Ambassador to the United States from 1953-1956. He was Chairman of …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Francois de Rose was France's Ambassador to NATO from 1970-1975. He discusses the influences on the French government leading to pursuit of the bomb. These centered around the notion of …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
George Bunn was General Counsel to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1961-1969, and played a key role as a negotiator of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). For …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Yuri Davydov was an analyst at the USA-Canada Institute, a think tank in Moscow. Here, he provides insights into Soviet perceptions about a range of nuclear-related issues during the Cold …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
David Aaron was the Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1977 to 1981. In the interview he discusses the Carter Administrations attempts to develop a strategic …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986 English
Meg Vaillancourt reports that Robert Mugabe (Prime Minister of Zimbabwe) was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Vaillancourt's report includes footage of Mugabe receiving his …