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- 1986 Mar 1 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with R Gordon Arneson, Assistant to Henry (Lewis) Stimson, US Secretary of War, 1940-1945, and Atomic Energy Adviser to Dean Gooderham Acheson, US Under Secretary of State, 1945-1949, relating to the career of Henry (Lewis) Stimson, US Secretary of War, 1940-1945; the US development of the atomic bomb, 1942-1945; the collaboration between the USA and UK during the Manhattan Project, 1942-1945; the decision by US President Harry S Truman to use the atomic bomb against Japan, Aug 1945; 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; the US Atomic Energy Act (the MacMahon Act), ending nuclear co-operation between the USA and the UK, 1946.
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