Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1974 May 13.

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Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1974 May 13.

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Pre-World War II relations with Japanese physicists, Sagane at Berkeley, 1937; the first bomb, decision to drop bombs and feelings about doing so, messages to Sagane dropped by planes over Japan; postwar visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to record bomb damage, contacts with Nishina and other Japanese scientists; Davis' speech on occasion of Roosevelt's death, return to Los Alamos, knowledge of destruction of Japanese cyclotron, political activities concerning civilian or military control of atomic energy, Yukawas' trip to Berkeley, Serber's 1959 visit to Japan, Office of Naval Research denial of clearance for 1952 Conference on Theoretical Physics.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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