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- 1986 Mar 3 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Denis Hubert Fletcher Rickett, Member of War Cabinet secretariat, 1939-1942, Principal Private Secretary to Rt Hon Oliver Lyttleton, Minister of War Production, 1943-1944, Special Assistant to Rt Hon Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, HM Ambassador, Washington DC, USA, 1945, Personal Assistant to Rt Hon Sir John Anderson, Lord President of the Council and Minister in charge of 'Tube alloys' (cover name for the atomic research programme), 1945-1947, Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee, 1950-1951, relating to the Maud Report, produced by British scientists convinced that the development of a viable nuclear weapon was possible, Jul 1941; the first Quebec Conference (codenamed QUADRANT), attended by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Quebec, Canada, 17-24 Aug 1943; the Manhattan Project, the Anglo-US project to develop an atomic bomb, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1942-1946; negotiations with the USA on the continuance of Anglo-US nuclear co-operation, Nov 1945; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, Jun 1946; the Acheson-Lilienthal Report on international control of atomic power, 1946. Copy of 10/12
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