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World Service,29 Mar 1993,28 mins

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First broadcast in 1993. The Cold War politics of mutually assured destruction and the Cuban Missile Crisis in a post-Hiroshima world. "After 1945, the majority of scientists considered what had already happened as too much. Better stop. Better not do more. I felt very differently, because I felt Stalin was a not much smaller danger than Hitler," said physicist Edward Teller.

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