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August 8, 1945	Memorandum of Conversation between W. A. Harriman and Stalin American ambassador W.A. Harriman and Joseph Stalin discuss the right of use for Russian built railroads in Chinese Manchuria, as well as the status of the ports of Darien and Port Arthur.
August 20, 1945	Soviet State Defense Committee Edict No. GKO-9887ss/op Instructions for the creation of a Special Committee which would supervise nuclear research and development of an atomic bomb.
January 25, 1946	Handwritten notes by Igor V. Kurchatov, Director of the Soviet Nuclear Program, on a Meeting with Stalin, Beria and Molotov Excerpts from Igor V. Kurchatov's handwritten notes from a conversation with Stalin on the secret Soviet nuclear project, accompanied by Beria and Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov, at the Kremlin on the evening of 25 January 1946.
January 25, 1946	Notes on the discussion between I.V. Kurchatov, lead scientist for the Soviet nuclear effort, and Stalin Kurchatov's notes on his meeting with Stalin, Molotov and Beria. Stalin promises the all necessary help to the soviet effort to build an atomic bomb. He suggests that the project should be build on "a Russian scale," without concerns for cost saving.