Item NUCLEAR AGE 10/10 - Interview with physicist Sir Rudolf Peierls, [1987]

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Sir Rudolf (Ernst) Peierls, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland, 1937-1963, Physicist, Manhattan Project, 1943-1946, Professor of Physics, Oxford University and Fellow, New College, Oxford, 1963-1974, relating to the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; nuclear research in the UK, 1938-1943; the Maud Report, produced by British scientists convinced that the development of a viable nuclear weapon was possible, Jul 1941; 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 reaction to the detonation of the atomic bomb, dropped by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), on Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950.