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Title The Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's secret nuclear alert [sound recording]
Published 2005

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  327.73047 Tcu/Rta Ep.3  2005/02/13  AVAILABLE
Description 1 sound disc (60 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in
Series Torn curtain ; episode 3
Hindsight (Radio program)
Summary Richard Nixon has just been elected on a promise of peace with honour a promise to get American troops out of Vietnam and heal the deep divisions in American society. But within six months of moving into the White House, Nixon would embark on a highly secret strategy of massively escalating the war and bluffing the Soviet Union that he was prepared to use nuclear weapons. We'll also hear some surprising revelations about how Soviet leaders saw the Vietnam war and their involvement in it
Notes Off-air recording of ABC (Radio National)"Hindsight" broadcast February 13, 2005. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act
Available for Deakin University staff and students only
Subject Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Cold War
Author Radio National (Australia)