Item NUCLEAR AGE 8/1 - Interview with ambassador Ryukichi Imai, 1987

Typescript transcript of interview with Japanese Ambassador Ryukichi Imai, Japanese Disarmament Ambassador, Geneva, Switzerland, [1983-1986], relating to the US Atoms for Peace programme to share nuclear knowledge with other countries, 1953; US technical and financial support for the Japanese nuclear energy programme, 1954-[1960]; the Japanese anti-nuclear movement, 1954-[1960]; the radioactive contamination of the Japanese fishing vessel FUKURYU MARU (LUCKY DRAGON) and its crew, from US thermonuclear tests, Operation CASTLE, Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the detonation of the first Chinese nuclear weapon, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the benefits of Japanese nuclear energy during the Arab oil embargo, 1973; Japanese reaction to the news of India's detonation of a nuclear device, Rajasthan Desert, India, May 1974; the impact on the Japanese nuclear industry of US President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter's Non-Proliferation Act, 1978.