War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Roald Sagdeev, 1986

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Title:
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Roald Sagdeev, 1986
Description:
R. Z. Sagdeev (Sagdeyev) is a plasma physicist who served as Science Adviser to Soviet President Gorbachev, and as Director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. After recalling his first awareness of the dawning of the nuclear age he describes the famous physicist Igor Kurchatov, including his relationship with Stalin, and he touches on aspects of the environment surrounding Soviet physics during that period. He remembers being relieved to hear about the Soviet nuclear test and tends to discount the role of espionage in the process. He closes with a brief comment on nuclear inspections.
Interviewee:
Sagdeev, R. Z.
Date:
March 25, 1986
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
WGBH > War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Subjects:
Global Affairs
Military Forces and Armaments
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945
World War II
Soviet Union
Physicists
Hydrogen bomb
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear weapons
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945
Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968
Born, Max, 1882-1970
Kurchatov, I. V. (Igor Vasil'evich), 1903-1960
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Unites States
Extent:
00:15:32
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-wm13n20w6c
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation