Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/1 - Script for episode 1, The Nuclear Age, 'Dawn', 1989

Typescript transmission script of episode 1 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'Dawn', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 4 Jan 1989, relating to the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; the Manhattan Project, the Anglo-US project to develop an atomic bomb, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1942-1946; the TRINITY Atomic Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb, Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, Alamogordo Desert, New Mexico, USA, 16 Jul 1945; 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; the surrender of Japan, 14 Aug 1945; including extracts of interviews with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Physicist, Manhattan Project, 1943-1946; Bernard Feld, Physicist, Manhattan Project, [1943]-1946; Hans Albrecht Bethe, Director of Theoretical Physics, Manhattan Project, 1943-1946; Carl-Friedrich von Weizsacker, German Physicist; Professor Sir Rudolf (Ernst) Peierls, Physicist, Manhattan Project, 1943-1946; Sergei Kapitsa, son of Soviet Physicist Petr Leonidovich Kapitsa; Sir Frank (Kenyon) Roberts, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Ambassador to the USSR, 1960-1962; Philip Morrison, Physicist, Manhattan Project; Boris Izakov, Soviet Armed Forces; US Gen Kenneth Nichols, Manhattan Project; Valentin Berezhkov, interpreter for Josef Vissarionovich Stalin; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; R Gordon Arneson, US State Department; Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Professor Ichiro Moritaki and Akihiro Takahashi, survivors of atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; Soviet Lt Gen Mikhail Milshtein.