War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Michel Tatu, 1986 [1]

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Title:
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Michel Tatu, 1986 [1]
Description:
Michel Tatu was a French journalist who served as Moscow correspondent for Le Monde from 1957-1964. In the interview he describes Premier Khrushchev's exaggeration of Soviet ICBM forces, but notes that the USSR did have "a huge arsenal" deployed against Europe, which he would tell European visitors made them "our hostages." Khrushchev's boasting, he relates, caused the U.S. to build up its arsenal even further. Mr. Tatu also describes the impact of the shooting down of the American U-2 reconnaissance plane, which the Soviet leader delayed announcing -- perhaps, Mr. Tatu speculates, because he did not want to wreck the Paris summit or at least hoped to get an apology directly from President Eisenhower. Mr. Tatu explains that Khrushchev's Kremlin rivals used the incident to turn Soviet policy away from detente.
Interviewee:
Tatu, Michel, 1933-
Date:
March 16, 1986
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
WGBH > War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Subjects:
Global Affairs
Military Forces and Armaments
International Relations
Berlin (Germany)--History--Crisis, 1961
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Kozlov, F. R. (Frol Romanovich), 1908-1965
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
Intermediate-range ballistic missiles
Nuclear weapons
Soviet Union
United States
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Extent:
00:11:27
Link to Item:
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2j6833mz78
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation