Item NUCLEAR AGE 4/8 - Interview with Comte Francois de Tricornot de Rose, former President of CERN, [1987]

Typescript transcript of interview with Comte François Jean-Baptiste Hubert Edouard Marie de Tricornot de Rose, President, European Nuclear Research Organisation (CERN, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), 1958-1960, relating to the French nuclear development programme, 1954-1960; the French defeat by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, Indo-China, 1954; the Suez crisis, 1956; the detonation of the first British thermonuclear weapon, Operation GRAPPLE, Malden Island, Line Islands, Pacific Ocean, May 1957; the administration of French Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, President of France, 1959-1969; the withdrawal of French forces from the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Military Committee, 1966; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the adoption by the USA and NATO of the strategic policy of flexible response, 1961 and 1967.