War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Gordon Arneson, 1986

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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
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Interview with Gordon Arneson, 1986
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Episode Description
Gordon Arneson was Secretary of the Interim Committee on Atomic Energy under the Secretary of War, (1945), a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, (1946-1948), and a special assistant to the undersecretary (1948-1950) and then the secretary of state (1950-1954). He was sometimes called the State Department's "Mr. Atom." In the interview he discusses the United States' development and deployment of nuclear weapons. He starts by describing the War Department and the Interim Committee on Atomic Energy during World War II, including personal recollections of Henry Stimson. He explains their attempts to work cooperatively with the Soviet Union, despite many people's reservations, and their discussions on how best to demonstrate America's nuclear capabilities, which ended with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He describes international collaboration in the development of nuclear weapons, particularly with the British, and how those relationships fell apart in the post-war years. He touches on a number of other topics, including the U.S. policy of containment after World War II, followed by the hurried development of a hydrogen bomb in response to the first Soviet nuclear tests; the role of American military capabilities in State Department planning after the war; the Berlin crisis of 1948; and others.
Date
1986-03-02
Date
1986-03-02
Asset type
Raw Footage
Subjects
Matthews, H. Freeman, 1899-; Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981; Sherfield, Roger Mellor Makins, Baron, 1904-; Baruch Plan (1946); MAUD Report (1941); United States. Atomic Energy Act of 1946; World War II; nuclear weapons; Nuclear Energy; Great Britain; United States; Soviet Union; International Relations; Korean War, 1950-1953; Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950; Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972; Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959; Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962; Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967; Groves, Leslie Richard; Gordon, Lincoln; Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, 1909-1989; Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971; Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Teller, Edward, 1908-2003; Nitze, Paul H.; Fuchs, Klaus; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945; Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945; Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949; hydrogen bomb; Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967
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Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
Writer: Arneson, Gordon
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Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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Chicago: “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Gordon Arneson, 1986,” 1986-03-02, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 15, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-7p8tb0xv3t.
MLA: “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Gordon Arneson, 1986.” 1986-03-02. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 15, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-7p8tb0xv3t>.
APA: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Gordon Arneson, 1986. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-7p8tb0xv3t