Item NUCLEAR AGE 5/13 - Interview with physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Freiherr Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Head of Department, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany, 1946-1957, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, 1957-1969, and Director, Max Planck Institute for Research on Preconditions of Human Life in a Scientific Technical World, 1970-1980, relating to the first successful splitting of an atom of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, Berlin, Germany, Dec 1938; the development of Nuclear Physics in Germany, 1938-1945; the capture of German Physicists by British and US forces, Germany, 1945; the use, by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, 6 Aug 1945.