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Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Mikhailovich Polikanov, Nuclear Physicist, Mechanical Institute, Moscow, USSR, 1946-1950, and Nuclear Power Research Institute, Moscow, USSR, 1950-1957, relating to the development of nuclear physics in the USSR and contacts with Western scientists during the 1930s; research by Igor (Vasilevich) Kurchatov into using nuclear fission as a source of energy, 1940; the interruption in Soviet nuclear research during the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; Soviet reaction to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 1945; intensification in Soviet nuclear research, 1945-1946; development and testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb, 1946-1948; Soviet development of the hydrogen bomb, 1948-1953.
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