Item NUCLEAR AGE 10/7 - Interview with diplomat and former AEA head, Lord Sherfield, 1989

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NUCLEAR AGE 10/7

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Interview with diplomat and former AEA head, Lord Sherfield, 1989

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  • 1989 Mar 24 (Creation)

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Typescript transcript of interview with Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, Ambassador to the USA, 1953-1956, Joint Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, 1956-1959, and Chairman, UK Atomic Energy Agency, 1960-1964, relating to the US Atoms for Peace programme, 1953; the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1957; the provision by the UK of technical assistance to Commonwealth countries embarking on nuclear programmes, [1953-1965]; the British reaction to the detonation of the first Chinese nuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; 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; British concerns on the possible use of nuclear weapons by US forces during the Korean War, 1950-1953; the inauguration of the Cyrus nuclear reactor, Trombay, India, 1961; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the role of Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1945-1951, in securing the involvement of the USA in the defence of western Europe, 1947-1949; the impact of the US Atomic Energy Act (the MacMahon Act), ending nuclear co-operation between the USA and the UK, 1946; the detonation of the first British thermonuclear weapon, Operation GRAPPLE, Malden Island, Line Islands, Pacific Ocean, May 1957; the reaction in Washington DC, USA, to the news of the detonation of the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950; the Cuban missile crisis, Oct 1962.

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