Item COLD WAR 27/32 - Transcript of interview with physicist Dr Harold Agnew, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Harold Melvin Agnew, former Director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, 1970-1979, relating to the reaction in the USA to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, JOE 1, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the role of espionage in the Soviet nuclear development programme, 1945-1949; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950; nuclear research at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1946-1949; US military requirements for nuclear weapons, 1945-1949; US development of thermonuclear weapons (Hydrogen bombs), 1949-1952; the detonation of the first US hydrogen bomb, MIKE test, Operation IVY, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, 31 Oct 1952; the conflict between US military and civilian control of nuclear energy, 1946-[1955]; competition between Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California, USA, during the Operation IVY hydrogen bomb tests, Oct-Nov 1952; the build up of the deployment of US nuclear weapons, 1961-1969; the radioactive contamination of the Japanese fishing vessel FUKURYU MARU (LUCKY DRAGON) and its crew, from US thermonuclear tests, Operation CASTLE, Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the US reaction to the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; the Korean War, 1950-1953. 33pp