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- 1986 Mar 2 (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 nuclear and conventional military planning, US State Department, [1946-1948]; the deployment by US President Harry S Truman of nuclear capable Boeing B-29 Superfortresses to US bases in the UK during the Berlin airlift crisis, 1948; the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949; the support of Dean Gooderham Acheson, US Under Secretary of State, 1945-1949, for the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), 1948-1952.
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