Series
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Raw Footage
Interview with Aleksandr Evgenevich Bovin, 1986
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-0c4sj19p3x
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Description
Episode Description
Aleksandr Bovin was a Soviet journalist, a speechwriter for Leonid Brezhnev, and a diplomat who served as Soviet and Russian ambassador to Israel. He offers Soviet reactions (Brezhnev's in particular) to President Nixon and the policy of detente, then discusses the effects of various issues on that policy - for example, the Soviet military buildup of the 1960s, the Vietnam war, and U.S.-China relations. He later talks about detente's effect on Soviet-European relations and the various developments that helped undermine the policy. Other individuals discussed are Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Other topics include the effect of the Third World on U.S.-Soviet relations, the importance of SALT II, the lack of a window of vulnerability, and unrealistic conceptions about the possibility for limited nuclear war.
Date
1986-12-16
Date
1986-12-16
Asset type
Raw Footage
Subjects
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; China; Kissinger, Henry, 1923-; McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009; Reagan, Ronald; Weinberger, Caspar W.; Carter, Jimmy, 1924-; Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002; Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-; Schlesinger, James R.; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II; Soviet Union. Treaties, etc. United States, 1972 May 26 (ABM); Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; nuclear weapons; Nuclear arms control; Detente; International Relations; Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles; Strategic Defense Initiative; Communism; Soviet Union; United States; Afghanistan; Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich, 1906-1982
Rights
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Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:00:00
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Credits
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
Writer: Bovin, Aleksandr Evgenevich
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: 37f23cbfa22744cdd88e202a6e2de9a2eb015ff1 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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Citations
Chicago: “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Aleksandr Evgenevich Bovin, 1986,” 1986-12-16, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 18, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-0c4sj19p3x.
MLA: “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Aleksandr Evgenevich Bovin, 1986.” 1986-12-16. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 18, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-0c4sj19p3x>.
APA: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Aleksandr Evgenevich Bovin, 1986. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-0c4sj19p3x