In this interview Dr. Charles A. Barnes discusses: his reaction to the announcement of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann having produced cold nuclear fusion; his collaboration with Nathan Lewis, Stephen Kellogg, and Steven Koonin in vain attempts to replicate the Pons-Fleischmann experiment and the skepticism in the scientific community; Steven Joness paper reporting neutron flux; claims of cold fusion by Texas A&M and Georgia Institute of Technology; California Institute of Technology (Caltech) W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory colloquium; efforts by Pons and Fleischmann to get government funding to fund cold fusion institute at the University of Utah; Koonins accusation of Pons and Fleischmanns incompetence and perhaps delusion;" Caltech administration's embargo of the word fraud;" Pons and Fleischmanns censoring of Department of Energy visiting committee and the committees June visit to Caltech; possible motives of Pons, Fleischmann, and the University of Utah; involvement of Cheves Walling and claim of production of helium-4; work of Harwell Laboratory, Centro Ricerche Energia Frascati, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Barnes concludes the interview by noting that Kellogg Lab continues to pursue aspects of the phenomenon while doubting it will prove a useful power source.