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Raising the Nuclear Threshold When Robert McNamara moved from president of Ford Motor Company to secretary of defense in 1961, he brought his very active manage . . . > more |
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1986-03-28 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:04:10 | Education of Robert McNamara, The |
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Changing Military Doctrine General Pierre-Marie Gallois, often regarded as the "father" of the French nuclear strategy, served with the Supreme Hea . . . > more |
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1986-06-11 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:01:22 | Education of Robert McNamara, The |
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McNamara's Whiz Kid Alain Enthoven, an MIT economist, was the country's first assistant secretary of defense for systems analysis from 1965 to 19 . . . > more |
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1986-02-22 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:03:05 | Education of Robert McNamara, The |
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Linkage and Arms Control Henry Kissinger, U.S. national security adviser from 1969 to 1973 and then secretary of state until 1977, was the dominant figure . . . > more |
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1986-11-26 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:01:34 | One Step Forward |
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Leaving the Bomb Project Joseph Rotblat, a Polish-born British physicist, was the only scientist ever to quit working on the Manhattan Project. In this vid . . . > more |
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1986-03-21 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:02:30;24 | Dawn |
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The Berlin Blockade Clark Clifford was special counsel to President Harry S. Truman from 1946 to 1950. In this video segment, he recounts the 1948 Ber . . . > more |
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1986-04-24 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:03:22 | Weapon of Choice, The |
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In the Mountains of New Mexico At age twenty-seven, physicist Philip Morrison joined the Manhattan Project, the code name given to the U.S. government's cov . . . > more |
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1986-02-26 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:02;15 | Dawn |
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Space and Strategic Defense Dean Rusk came from barefoot poverty in rural Georgia and achieved black-tie success. He was the first assistant secretary for UN . . . > more |
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1988-04-13 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:01:22 | Visions of War and Peace |
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The Other Side of the Table Andrei Gromyko served as Soviet foreign minister from 1957 to 1985. Beginning in 1943, when Soviet premier Joseph Stalin appointed . . . > more |
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1988-12-13 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:05:07 | |
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The Impact of Nuclear Fallout Earl Ubell is a pioneer among science and health writers in America. After a long, distinguished career at The New York Herald Tri . . . > more |
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1950-12-20 | Press and the People | 00:03:09 | The Bomb and the Press |
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The Private Pain of Lyndon B. Johnson Harry McPherson was special counsel to U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969. In this video segment, McPherson captur . . . > more |
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1981-04-23 | Vietnam: A Television History | 00:02:56 | Tet, 1968 |
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The Forgotten War The War between North and South Korea, which began in June 1950, marked the first armed confrontation during the Cold War. Within . . . > more |
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Limited Partnerships Josef Joffe, an international-relations analyst from the Federal Republic of Germany, has taught and written extensively in the jo . . . > more |
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1987-10-23 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:06:21 | Zero Hour |
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Superior Threat Dr. Randall Forsberg is executive director of the think tank she founded in 1980, the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studie . . . > more |
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1988-03-03 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:04:35 | Visions of War and Peace |
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Compromising for Security Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Les Aspin was elected to Congress in 1971, serving continuously until 1993. He then served as Presid . . . > more |
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1987-12-15 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:03:55 | Missile Experimental |
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From Mutual Assured Destruction to Star Wars Caspar Weinberger served as U.S. president Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense from 1981 to 1987. In this video segment, Wei . . . > more |
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1987-11-12 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:02:20 | Reagan's Shield |
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The Shell Game In the late 1970s and the 1980s, the centerpiece of the American military buildup was the Missile Experimental (MX), a super-accur . . . > more |
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The 1957 Defense White Paper Sir Richard Powell was permanent secretary at the British Ministry of Defense from 1956 to 1959. In this video segment, Powell des . . . > more |
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1986-10-27 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:03:48 | Education of Robert McNamara, The |
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Germans to the Front General Gerd Schmuckle served in the Federal Republic of Germany's Ministry of Defense from 1956 to 1962 under defense minist . . . > more |
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1986-11-01 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:03:51 | Education of Robert McNamara, The |
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Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race Dr. Randall Forsberg is executive director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, a think tank she founded in 1980 . . . > more |
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1987-11-09 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:01:43 | Visions of War and Peace |
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Storm in a Teacup Sir Roger Makins, later Lord Sherfield, was the British ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1956 and chairman of the Unit . . . > more |
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1986-11-13 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:04:34 | Europe Goes Nuclear |
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Diplomatic Standing and the Bomb Maurice Schumann was French deputy foreign minister from 1951 to 1954 and foreign minister from 1969 to 1973. In this video segmen . . . > more |
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1986-11-04 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:03:03 | Education of Robert McNamara, The |
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Normalizing Relations with China Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, was national security adviser to U.S. president Jimm . . . > more |
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1989-12-02 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:01:32 | Carter's New World |
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Inside the Salt II Delegation Edward L. Rowny was the Joint Chiefs of Staff representative to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) from 1972 to 1979. From . . . > more |
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1986-12-04 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:06:17 | One Step Forward |
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The Vital Role of a Partial Space Shield This clip was created from unedited, original video. The original video contained some distortion and technical issues. Richa . . . > more |
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1987-12-18 | War and Peace in the Nuclear Age | 00:04:10 | Reagan's Shield |
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