Other Nuclear Events
General Nuclear Culture
Video
Plowshare Program - American Atomic Blast Tests For Industrial Applications - WDTVLIVE42
Atoms For Peace - 1950's Atomic Energy Studies / Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
A Is For Atom (1952)
Web Links
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ‘Background and Mission: 1945-2016’, thebulletin.org (2016)
http://thebulletin.org/background-and-mission-1945-2016
[accessed 8 August 2016]
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Eisenhower, Dwight D., ‘Atoms for Peace’, 470th Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 8 December 1953, in IAEA
https://www.iaea.org/about/history/atoms-for-peace-speech
[accessed 14 July 2016]
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INPO, ‘Home’, INPO (2015)
http://www.inpo.info/Index.html
[accessed 18 July 2016]
Documents
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
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Footage: Atomic bomb drop in Hiroshima
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‘Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’, Atomic Heritage Foundation (2014)
http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-1945
[accessed 1 June 2017]
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Truman, Harry S., ‘Statement By The President Of The United States’, Washington D.C., The White House, 6 August 1945, in Harry S. Truman Library & Museum (2016)
[accessed 19 July 2016]
Documents
Document 4C (PDF)
ViewWindscale
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1956: Queen switches on nuclear power’, BBC News (17 October 1956)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/17/newsid_3147000/3147145.stm<
[accessed 14 August 2016]
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Lohr, Steve, ‘Britain Suppressed Details of ’57 Atomic Disaster’, The New York Times (2 January 1988)
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/02/world/britain-suppressed-details-of-57-atomic-disaster.htm
[accessed 30 August 2016]
Document 4D (PDF)
ViewChernobyl
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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: News Report From April 28, 1986
Metro News 6 April, 1986 Chernobyl disaster
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: Gorbachev Speaks, May 14, 1986
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‘In Focus: Chernobyl’, IAEA (2017)
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/chernobyl
[accessed 2 June 2017]
Documents
Document 4E (PDF)
ViewFukushima
Video Links
First news of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
DAVID MUIR, Reporting on Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident in Japan, March 2011.
Helicopters dump water on nuclear plant in Japan - CNN News 17 March 2011
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Gilliland, Donald, ‘For some, Japanese nuclear emergency mirrors 1979’s Three Mile Island’, Pennlive (12 March 2011)
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/03/for_some_japanese_nuclear_emer.html
[accessed 17 May 2015]
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‘Timeline: Japan power plant crisis’, BBC (13 March 2011)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12722719
[accessed 19 April 2016]