Item COLD WAR 27/171 - Transcript of interview with energy adviser Thomas P Grumbly, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Thomas P Grumbly, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, US Department of Energy, [1995]-1997, relating to the sacrifice of safety for speed during the development of US nuclear weapons, 1942-1952; the dangers caused by exposure to radiation for workers in the US nuclear industry, for the environment and for the local population living near nuclear installations, 1942-1990; the attraction of nuclear weapons over conventional weaponry, 1945-1990; the process of decommissioning and dismantling nuclear weapons, 1989-1997; the environmental damage caused by the development of nuclear weapons, 1942-1990; the cost and feasibility of cleaning up the environment, 1997; the difficulties in safely disposing of plutonium, 1997; the health impact on the populations of the USA and USSR due to the development of nuclear weapons, 1942-1990; the danger of nuclear proliferation since the collapse of the USSR, 1991-1997; the legacy of the Cold War, 1991-1997; US stockpile stewardship, a programme to ensure that stockpiled nuclear weapons could still be deployed and used if necessary, 1997; the nuclear contamination of various lakes in the USSR and of the Hanford site in the USA, 1945-1991. 18pp