Item COLD WAR 27/34 - Transcript of interview with physicist Professor Edward Teller, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Edward Teller, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, USA, 1960-1975, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California, USA, 1975-[1989], relating to the US reaction to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the Soviet exploitation of espionage to further the development of nuclear weapons, 1945-1949; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950; the US thermonuclear (Hydrogen bomb) development programme, 1949-1952; the US BRAVO test, Operation CASTLE, Bikini Atoll, Marshall islands, Pacific Ocean, 28 Feb 1954; 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 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 deterrent role of thermonuclear weapons during the Cold War, 1952-1990; the opposition by Dr Julius Robert Oppenheimer, to the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) 1948-1952; the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) investigation against Robert Oppenheimer, 1953-1954. 16pp