Item NUCLEAR AGE 12/9 - Interview with former diplomat V Biriskov, [1986]

Typescript transcript of interview with V Biriskov [Soviet Diplomat, Berlin, Germany, 1941], relating to Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the USSR, Jun 1941; the Allied Teheran conference, codenamed EUREKA, to co-ordinate strategy between the USSR, the USA and the UK, Teheran, Iran, 28 Nov-1 Dec 1943; the Allied Yalta conference, codenamed ARGONAUT, attended by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Yalta, Crimea, USSR, 4-11 Feb 1945; the Moscow conference, codenamed TOLSTOY, attended by Stalin and Churchill, 9-19 Oct 1944; the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; Stalin's reaction to US President Harry S Truman's announcement at the Potsdam conference of 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 Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, 9 May 1945.