Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/41 - Interview with physicist Bernard Feld, 1986

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NUCLEAR AGE 11/41

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Interview with physicist Bernard Feld, 1986

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  • 1986 Mar 5 (Creation)

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Typescript transcript of interview with Bernard Feld, Physicist, Manhattan Project, [1943]-1946, relating to a meeting at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, between Feld, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, 1939; the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; nuclear research in Germany, 1934-1939; the Manhattan Project, the Anglo-US project to develop an atomic bomb, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1942-1946; the reaction to the detonation of the atomic bomb, dropped by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), on Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; the creation of the Federation of Atomic Scientists, Washington DC, USA, 1946.

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