Margaret Thatcher on handling of Chernobyl

Title

Margaret Thatcher on handling of Chernobyl

Genre

Speech

TX Date

3 May 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:02:11

Description

Speech by UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, at the opening of the Tokyo Summit, criticising the Soviet Union’s handling of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and especially the lack of information released.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

USSR; International relations; Political systems; Japan; Nuclear safety; Summits (meetings); Tokyo; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (1986)

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