Lavrent'ev, Oleg Aleksandrovich, 1930
Oral history interview with Oleg Aleksandrovich Lavrent'ev, 1994 June 1.
Army service, development of ideas on nuclear fusion and H-bomb. Letter to Stalin about possibiltiy to make hydrogen bomb, D-Li variant. Invitation to Moscow University. Meetings with Minister of Atomic Energy Makhnev, Chairman of the Special Committee (on nuclear weapons) Beria, Skharov, Kurchatov, Vannikov and so on. Institute of Atomic Energy. Golovin, Artsimovich, Budker. Electromagnetic traps. Zavenyagin. Political troubles. Death of benefactor Beria. Kharkiv variant. "Nautilus". Belosel'sky, Dimirchanov, Alikhanyan. Temperature 2.5 million degrees. Unstabilities. 1973 y. Electrostatic and electromagnetic traps. Troubles about declaration of discovery. Certificates from Sakharov and Golovin. Some protocols of Scientific Council of Institute.
Physicist. At the National Scientific Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Ukraine. He has been called "Father of Nuclear Fusion Research in the USSR."
Alikhani a n, A. I. (Artemi Isaakovich), 1908-
Art s imovich, L. A. (Lev Andreevich), 1909-1973
Budker, G. I. (Gersh It s kovich), 1918-1977.
Lavrent'ev, Oleg Aleksandrovich, 1930
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
Moskovski gosudarstvenny universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova
Electromagnetism.
Electrostatics.
Hydrogen bomb.
Nuclear fission.
Nuclear weapons
Physicists -- Soviet Union.
Soldiers -- Soviet Union.
Temperature.
Oral histories. aat
Ranyuk, Yuri, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA