Item NUCLEAR AGE 10/16 - Interview with physicist Joseph Rotblat, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Joseph Rotblat, Research Fellow, Radiological Laboratory, Scientific Society of Warsaw, Poland, 1933-1939, Assistant Director of Atomic Physics, Institute of Free University of Poland, 1937-1939, Oliver Lodge Fellowship, University of Liverpool, Lancashire, 1939, worked on the development of an atomic bomb, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, 1940-1942, and on the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1942-1944, Director of Research in Nuclear Physics, University of Liverpool, 1945-1949, Professor of Physics, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, University of London, 1950-1976, and Nobel Peace Laureate, 1995, relating to the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; atomic research in the UK, 1939-1942; 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; Rotblat's decision to leave the Manhattan Project, 1944; the detonation of the atomic bomb, dropped by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), on Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945.