Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1967 May 6.

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Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1967 May 6.

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Reflections on and involvement in the proximity fuze program and the initial atomic bomb program during World War II and the radar development program during the 1920s and the early 1930s and Adm. Deak Parsons' role and contributions. Origin of the Manhattan Project. Also prominently mentioned are: Commander Blandy, Vannevar Bush, John Fleming, A. V. Hill, Lawrence Marshall, Mark Oliphant, Shumaker; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), and United States Navy.

Transcript, 41 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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