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Radio 3,3 mins

"Knowing what it would mean... I did not want this patent to become public."

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Samira Ahmed retraces physicist Leo Szilard's footsteps through Russell Square, London - where the idea that would lead to the invention of the Atomic bomb first hit him.

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