The interview focuses on Abdus Salam as a politician of science. It tries to establish how much Salam transmitted to his collaborators about his political agenda. Salam's activism in pursuing the Nobel Prize; Feldman's view and collaboration with Matthews and Salam at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste and at Imperial College; significant works that came out of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics between 1964 and 1980.