Selected African Holdings

Selected African Holdings

WGBH Educational Foundation

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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

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 …