Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/77 - Interview with John Manley, former Deputy Director, Los Alamos Laboratory, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor John Frederick Manley, Deputy Director, Los Alamos Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, [1943-1948] and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, California, USA, 1977-1980, relating to the difficulty in retaining US atomic scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, following the Japanese surrender, Sep 1945; the military requirements for US nuclear weapons, 1947-1948; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946; the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 1947-1948; the Berlin airlift, Germany, 1948-1949; the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949; US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), 1949-1952; the importance of Professor Edward Teller in the US thermonuclear development programme, 1949-1952; the opposition by Dr J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer, to the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) 1948-1952.