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Episode 2. Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War: Jose Goldemberg and Frank N. von Hippel
Episode 2. Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War: Jose Goldemberg and Frank N. von Hippel
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51 minutes
Released:
Jan 11, 2018
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The possibility that world annihilation rests with the twitching fingertips of a dictator in North Korea and a narcissist in Washington motivated me to focus the second science history podcast on nuclear disarmament. As a bonus, we also discuss renewable energy, another fitting topic at a time when the United States stands alone as the only country in the world that is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. My first guest is Jose Goldemberg, a physicist who has played a central role in the development of Brazilian science and policy for half a century. Jose’s comments are put into the historical perspective of Cold War events by my second guest, Frank N. von Hippel, a professor and co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Released:
Jan 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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