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Disillusion with Defence:
The Mortification ofMcNamara The first of six programmes written and presented by Michael Charlton , exploring the evolution of the American strategic debate from the origins of the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty in the 1960s to President Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative.
What led the Americans to put forward the theory of Mutual
Assured Destruction? The men who took the crucial decisions of the nuclear age discuss
American responses to Soviet nuclear diplomacy in the 1960s and the role played by nuclear weapons in the crises over Cuba and Berlin.
Contributors:
Robert McNamara Dean Rusk
General William Odom
Field Marshall Lord Carver Producer ANNE WINDER
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Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Robert McNamara
Unknown:
Dean Rusk
Unknown:
William Odom
Producer:
Anne Winder
Source: Radio Times

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