The Bomb Podcast
How the nuclear bomb shaped world history. The scientists who raced to build weapons, the spies who stole the technology and the superpowers who grappled with deployment.
How the nuclear bomb shaped world history. The scientists who raced to build weapons, the spies who stole the technology and the superpowers who grappled with deployment.
In Season 3, nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the USA prevent apocalypse? Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy, tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Season 2 is about Klaus Fuchs, the brilliant young physicist from a pacifist German family whose spying for Russia changed history.
Season 1 tells the story of Leo Szilard, and the scientist鈥檚 discovery of the lethal potential for nuclear weapons in the race to beat Nazi Germany.
Episodes to download
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1. Moonshine—Leo Szilard
Fri 31 Jul 2020
A little-known scientist discovers something that will change the course of human history
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The prologue—Leo Szilard
Thu 23 Jul 2020
鈥淢y grandfather in front of a mushroom cloud鈥�. Could the Bomb have been stopped? #thebomb
