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Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Philip Morrison, Physicist, Metallurgy Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1943-1944, Physicist, Manhattan Project, 1944-1946, Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 1946-1965, and Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, relating to the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, and the subsequent participation of the USA in World War Two, 1941-1945; nuclear research in Germany, 1939-1945; the Manhattan Project, the Anglo-US project to develop an atomic bomb, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1942-1946; the personality and leadership of Dr J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer, Director, the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1944-1946; the development by Germany of the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket, 1943-1945; the TRINITY Atomic Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb, Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, Alamogordo Desert, New Mexico, USA, 16 Jul 1945; the detonation of the atomic bomb, dropped by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), on Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945; the Acheson-Lilienthal Report on international control of atomic power, 1946; the Bernard Mannes Baruch report, to the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Commission, on outlawing atomic war, 1946; Professor Niels Henrik David Bohr, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and his open letter to the United Nations on the necessity for the adoption of peaceful atomic policies, 9 Jun 1950; the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949; US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), 1949-1952.
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