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In The Shadow of The Bomb Episodes Available now
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The Peace Movement
The moment when the1960s peace movement attempted to counter the prophesy of Armageddon
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The Road To Hiroshima
How a group of scientists changed the world in the New Mexico desert
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Hiroshima 1945
On 6 August 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan
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Disarmament – Or Not?
The voices of dissent, including physicist Andrei Sakharov and CND chairman Bruce Kent
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NATO And The Deterrents
With the bomb came the possibility of a man-made Armageddon