Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/102 - Interview with journalist ……… Roberts (first name not given), 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Mr Roberts, US journalist, Washington DC, USA, 1941-1945, relating to US isolationism, 1918-1941; the impact of the Great Depression in the USA and the rise of Marxism, 1929-1933; the official recognition of the USSR by the USA, 1933; the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 23 Aug 1939; the impact of World War Two in the USA, 1939-1941; the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to a third term as US President, Nov 1940; the popularity of Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill in the USA, 1940-1941; Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the USSR, Jun 1941; 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 wartime alliance between the USA, UK and USSR, 1941-1945; the death of US President Roosevelt, 12 Apr 1945, and the leadership of US President Harry S Truman, 1945-1946; 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; a visit by Roberts to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a member of the US Strategic Bombing Survey, Japan, Nov 1945; the collapse in US-Soviet relations, 1945-1946; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, Jun 1946.