Selected African Holdings

Selected African Holdings

WGBH Educational Foundation

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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 India’s Ministry of Defense. In the interview, he offers his views on China’s 1964 test, determining immediately that India should get a device …


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

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 Pakistan’s nuclear …


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 …