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Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance

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The major threat faced by the west today is the danger of nuclear war. Sooner or later, if we contrive to follow the present strategy of first use, deterrents will fail, and western civilisation will be destroyed.
Robert McNamara , United States Secretary of Defense 1961-68 discusses the policy he is advocating today of ' no-first-use ' of nuclear weapons with Professor Laurence Martin Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the BBC's
1981 Reith Lecturer. Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

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Robert McNamara
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Professor Laurence Martin
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Anthony Moncrieff
Source: Radio Times

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