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Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1943-1946, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1946-1960, Director General, European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland, 1961-1965, and Instructor and Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1965-[1988], relating to nuclear research in Germany, 1934-1939; the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; 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 reaction to 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; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946.
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