Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/110 - Interview with chemist Glenn Seaborg, [1987]

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Section Chief, Metallurgy Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1942-1946, Director of Nuclear and Chemical Research, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, 1946-1958 and 1972-1975, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, 1958-1961, and Chairman, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1971, relating to nuclear proliferation, 1945-[1987]; the US Atoms for Peace programme to share nuclear knowledge with other countries, 1953; the development of military and civilian uses for nuclear energy, 1945-[1987]; the first Atoms for Peace Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955; the Indian nuclear development programme, [1955]-1974; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the detonation of the first Chinese nuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; a visit by Seaborg, as Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, to Israel to discuss the Israeli nuclear development programme, 1966; the detonation of the first Chinese thermonuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Jun 1967; a meeting between Seaborg and Indian Prime Minister Indira (Priyadarshini)Gandhi on Indian nuclear policy, 1967; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the detonation of India's first nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974.