The DTIB: the development and production of armaments
Interview with Willem van Eekelen: the establishment of the WEU armaments agencies in the 1950s (The Hague, 1 October 2009)
VidéoIn this interview, Willem van Eekelen, Netherlands Minister for Defence from 1986 to 1988 and Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) from 1989 to 1994, gives the reasons for the establishment of the Agency for the Control of Armaments (ACA) and the Standing Armaments Committee (SAC) in 1954 and 1955, in the middle of the Cold War.