Item NUCLEAR AGE 10/15 - Interview with diplomat Sir Frank Roberts, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Frank (Kenyon) Roberts, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954-1957, to the USSR, 1960-1962, and to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1963-1968, relating to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, and the subsequent participation of the USA in World War Two, 1941-1945; the Warsaw Rising, Poland, Aug-Oct 1944; the Yalta Conference (codenamed ARGONAUT), attended by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Yalta, Crimea, USSR, 4-11 Feb 1945; the development of strategic bombing of enemy centres of population, [1936]-1945; the impact of 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 Berlin airlift, Germany, 1948-1949; the appointment of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953; the impact in the UK to the announcement of the Truman Doctrine, the provision of US military and economic aid for any country threatened by Communism, Mar 1947, and the Marshall Plan, the US Foreign Assistance Act to aid European Recovery after World War Two, 1948; the Communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948.