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The programme examines the way in which the superpowers - USA and USSR - have managed crises in their relationships, using archive film and specially shot interviews, taking the examples of the Cub...an Missile Crisis in 1962 and the Middle East "Yom Kippur: war of 1973 (when US forces were put on worldwide nuclear alert). It analyses how these crises differed and looks at how such crises may be managed or prevented in the future (e.g. the idea of crisis management centres).
The programme examines the way in which the superpowers - USA and USSR - have managed crises in their relationships, using archive film and specially shot interviews, taking the examples of the Cub...an Missile Crisis in 1962 and the Middle East "Yom Kippur: war of 1973 (when US forces were put on worldwide nuclear alert). It analyses how these crises differed and looks at how such crises may be managed or prevented in the future (e.g. the idea of crisis management centres).
| Module code and title: | U235, "Nuclear weapons: inquiry, analysis and debate" |
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| Item code: | U235; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 31-05-1986 |
| Published: | 1986 |
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| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:24:34 |
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| Producer: | Alison Tucker |
| Narrator: | Tim Meats |
| Contributors: | Phil Williams; Graham Allison; Paul Bracken; James Schlesinger; Henry Kissinger; Oleg Bykhov |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Cold war; Communications; Cuban missile crisis; Detente; Middle East war; Nuclear alert; Superpowers |
| Master spool number: | HOU5404 |
| Production number: | FOUP259S |
| Videofinder number: | 1337 |
| Available to public: | no |
