Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/98 - Interview with physicist Isidor Rabi, 1986 (duplicate)

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi, Professor of Physics, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1937-1967, member of the General Advisory Committee to the US Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1974, the US President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957-1968, and the General Advisory Committee of US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1962-1983, relating to Rabi's decision, in 1943, not to participate in the Manhattan Project, the Anglo-US project to develop an atomic bomb, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 1942-1946; 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 role of the General Advisory Commission to the US Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-[1953]; the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949; the opposition by Dr J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer, to the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) 1948-1952; the opinions of Ernest Orlando Lawrence and Edward Teller on US hydrogen bomb development, 1948; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950. Copy of 11/97.