War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Carl Kaysen, 1986 [1]
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- Raw Footage
- Interview with Carl Kaysen, 1986 [1]
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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- cpb-aacip/15-2z12n4zk0x
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Carl Kaysen was the Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs for President Kennedy. In the interview he discusses the creation of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. He explains the influence that the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 had on President Kennedy and on the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. He describes the exciting process of helping Ted Sorensen write the American University speech given by Kennedy on the possibility of peaceful relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. He goes on to describe the creation and some of the inner workings of the U.S. delegation to Moscow led by Averell Harriman that negotiated the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He paints a vivid picture of Kennedy's and Khrushchev's separate reactions to the success and of the dinner Khrushchev later gave at the Kremlin to celebrate the treaty, and notes that the treaty was a high point for both Khrushchev and Kennedy's political careers. In Kaysen's view, the missile crisis helped lead to the treaty. He closes by describing what he believes are the "right" and "wrong" lessons of the missile crisis.
- Date
- 1986-02-28
- Date
- 1986-02-28
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- Subjects
- Ball, George; Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, 1909-1989; Akalovsky, Alexander; McCloy, John J. (John Jay), 1895-1989; Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-1982; Kuznetsov, Vasily; Cousins, Norman; Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994; Dobrynin, Anatoly, 1919-2010; Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994; Bell, David E., 1919-; Macmillan, Harold, 1894-1986; McNaughton, John T. (John Theodore), 1921-; National Security Council (U.S.); North Atlantic Treaty Organization; United Nations; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; nuclear weapons; Nuclear arms control; Nuclear weapons -- Testing; United States; Soviet Union; China; Great Britain; Kremlin (Moscow, Russia); Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963); Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986; Sorensen, Theodore C.; Bundy, McGeorge; Press, Frank, 1924-; McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009
- Rights
- Rights Note:,Rights:,Rights Credit:WGBH Educational Foundation,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:WGBH Educational Foundation
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:00:00
- Credits
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Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
Writer: Kaysen, Carl
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 4f322e97c641e4bf1b42bbbff7c20aa606e05d04 (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 Carl Kaysen, 1986 [1],” 1986-02-28, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed November 18, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2z12n4zk0x.
- MLA: “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Carl Kaysen, 1986 [1].” 1986-02-28. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. November 18, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2z12n4zk0x>.
- APA: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Carl Kaysen, 1986 [1]. 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-15-2z12n4zk0x