| Title |
Serge Golian, Santa Ana, California, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Serge Golian, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Golian, Serge |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-06-28 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Subject |
Golian, Serge--Interviews; Radar--Military applications--United States; Radar--Research--United States; Nuclear weapons--Research--United States; Nuclear energy--United States |
| Keywords |
OSRD |
| Description |
Transcript (84 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with Serge Golian, on June 28, 1970. From tape number UR-195 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engle interviewed Golian in Santa Ana, California. Subjects: childhood and MIT, radar in Britain, jerry-rigged devices, Battle of Britain, the war in Germany and the Far East, paratroopers, German research on the A-bomb and rockets, cosmic ray research, atomic energy, submarines, nuclear testing in the Pacific, radiation shielding, Hiroshima bomb, dangers of reactors, public perception, the environment and the cold war, earthquake theory, waste disposal, isotopes for pasteurization, medical applications, agricultural applications, radioactive dating, neutron analysis and the U. S. Navy, future applications (84 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
19 pages, 57 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6nw1r70 |
| Topic |
Radar--Military applications; Radar--Research; Nuclear weapons--Research; Nuclear energy |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055994 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nw1r70 |
| Title |
Page 40 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055942 |
| OCR Text |
Show SERGE GOLIAN #1 have a chance to be on carriers and submarines and all sorts of aircraft of various kinds. But the Naval Research Laboratories, as I say, decided to enter a program of building its own reactor. CE: Now this was after the war? SG: This was after the war. And also now, there was going to be a requirement for nuclear weapons testing which was not going to be possible to fulfil in this country. The weapons would be very large; one could not fire them in Nevada, and so the Navy was charged with part of the responsibility, a great deal of responsibility for the nuclear weapons test. CE: Why, since the Army was in charge of the Manhattan Project, and the Navy seemed to have been left out? SG: Well, the Navy I think--of course, I'm not an expert of the whys and wherefores here, but the nuclear aspects of the development were of course in the Atomic Energy control by now, and it was obvious that when one had to perform overseas that the very vital part of the effort would be a navy effort. One had to explode a weapon somewhere in the far Pacific, one had to instrument it, one had to have many ships. It was rather obviously a Navy problem, you see, to get all this put together as it were, the task force a Navy task force. Now the way it usually operated was 34 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nw1r70/1055942 |
