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Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 1937-1975, Director, Theoretical Physics Division, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1943-1946, member of US President's Science Advisory Committee, 1956-1960, and member of US Presidential Study on Disarmament, 1958, relating to the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; nuclear research in Europe and the USA, 1933-1939; wartime nuclear research in Germany, the UK and the USA, 1939-1945; 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 use, by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 and 9 Aug 1945; US military requirements for atomic weapons, 1945-1948; Operation CROSSROADS, the two US nuclear tests, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Jun-Jul 1946; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946; the opposition by Dr J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer, to the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) 1948-1952; Operation SANDSTONE, the three US atomic bomb tests, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Apr-May 1948; the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949; US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), 1949-1952; the importance of Professor Edward Teller in the US thermonuclear development programme, 1949-1952; Operation GREENHOUSE, the four US nuclear tests, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Apr-May 1951.
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