Item NUCLEAR AGE 1/8 - Script for episode 8, The Nuclear Age, 'The haves and have nots', 1989

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NUCLEAR AGE 1/8

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Script for episode 8, The Nuclear Age, 'The haves and have nots', 1989

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  • 1989 Feb 20 (Creation)

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Typescript transmission script of episode 8 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'The haves and the have nots', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 20 Feb 1989, relating to the announcement of the US Atoms for Peace programme to share nuclear knowledge with other countries, 1953; the first Atoms for Peace Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955; the development of Indian nuclear research, 1948-1989; the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1957; the detonation of the first French nuclear weapon, Reggane, Algeria, Feb 1960; the detonation of the first Chinese nuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the deterioration in relations between the USSR and the People's Republic of China, 1967-1970; the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1968; the detonation of the first Chinese thermonuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Jun 1967; the Indo-Pakistan War, Dec 1971; the detonation of India's first nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974; Operation BABYLON, the Israeli air attack on the Osirak nuclear research reactor, Al Tuwaitha, Iraq, 7 Jun 1981; including extracts of interviews with Bertrand Goldschmidt, French Atomic Energy Commission; Raja Ramanna, Chairman, Indian Atomic Energy Commission; Professor Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Chairman, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1971; Roland Timerbaev, Soviet Foreign Ministry; Lakshmi Kant Jha, Secretary, Indian Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, 1960-1964; Myron Kratzer, US Atomic Energy Commission; US Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Defense Liaison Officer and Staff Secretary to US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1954-1961; Han Xu, Chinese Ambassador to the USA; George Bunn, General Counsel, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1961-1969; Chandra Shekhar Jha, Indian Foreign Secretary, 1965-1967; Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India; Homi Sethna, Chairman, Indian Atomic Energy Commission; Rt Hon Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, Chairman, British Delegation, UN Disarmament Committee; Morarji (Ranchhodji) Desai, Prime Minister of India; Agha Shahi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, 1972; Kandury Subrahmanyam, Indian Institute for Defence Studies; Dr Subramanian Swamy, Member of Indian Parliament; Pakistani Gen Agha Ibrahim Akram; Munir Khan, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of Pakistan; Joseph Nye, US Non-Proliferation Policy Advisor; Abdul Sattar, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan.

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