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Interview with Sir Richard Powell, 1986 [Part 2 of 4]

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be repaired and restored. And I was, I went with Duncan Sandys in January, 1957 to New York and Washington to begin the process. Ah, or to try to begin the process and we were definitely right in the deep freeze at the time. I remember a very chilly lunch with Henry Cabot Lodge at the United Nations, um
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Sir Richard Powell was permanent secretary at the British Ministry of Defense from 1956 to 1959. In the interview he conducted for War and Peace in the Nuclear Age: “The Education of Robert McNamara,” Powell recalls British officials’ shock that, although their scientists had originated work on the atom bomb, the McMahon Act of 1946 barred British access to U.S. nuclear information... more
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10/27/1986
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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age / Education of Robert McNamara, The
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