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- 1987 Jun 2 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Myron Kratzner, Director, US Atoms for Peace programme, US Atomic Energy Commission, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Nuclear Energy Affairs, [1953-1977], relating to the US Atoms for Peace programme, 1953; nuclear proliferation, 1946-1987; the first Atoms for Peace Conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955; the Indian nuclear development programme, [1955]-1974; the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1957; the Israeli independent nuclear development programme, 1968-1987; the role of the UK, Canada and France in the Atoms for Peace programme, 1953-1987; a prediction on the scale of future nuclear proliferation, made by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1963; the detonation of India's first nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974; US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter's Non-Proliferation Act, 1978; the formation of the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation Group (INFCE), 1977.
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