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How it all began: Europe, fission, and the Nazis with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 1)

How it all began: Europe, fission, and the Nazis with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 1)

FromMy Nuclear Life


How it all began: Europe, fission, and the Nazis with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 1)

FromMy Nuclear Life

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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Jan 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Today on My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes. This conversation has been broken up into three parts. This Part 1 discussion includes topics like the beginning of nuclear science as a field until the Manhattan Project was approved.

You will hear parts of a speech in this episode given by Otto Hahn at the University of California, Berkeley and excerpt from Otto Frisch in 1967 from his talk called Fission: How it All Began.
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Released:
Jan 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (58)

On July 16, 1945, in a New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test ushered in the Nuclear Age. No other piece of technology has penetrated the American consciousness like the nuclear bomb and found a place in everything from culture to medicine. This podcast explores how nuclear science has impacted and changed our world in both beneficial and destructive ways. We explore the intersection of nuclear science and society using interviews with historians, policymakers, experts in their fields, and first-hand accounts to weave a picture of your nuclear life.