Item COLD WAR 26/6 - Transcript of interview with anti-nuclear campaigner Pat Arrowsmith, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Pat Arrowsmith, an organiser of the first march from London to the British nuclear research site at Aldermaston, Berkshire, 1958, relating to the use, by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 and 9 Aug 1945; US anti-Soviet propaganda, 1945-1954; the US thermonuclear tests, Operation CASTLE, Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the radioactive contamination of the Japanese fishing vessel FUKURYU MARU (LUCKY DRAGON) and its crew, from nuclear fallout from the Operation CASTLE US thermonuclear tests, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, [1958]; the first march from London to the British nuclear research site at Aldermaston, Berkshire, 1958, the foundation of the Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests, [1957]; the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1958; the creation of anti-nuclear movements in Europe, [1958-1962]; the activities of CND to protest against the US deployment of General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) to RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, 1980-1984; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 41pp