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First broadcast in 1993. The Cold War politics of mutually assured destruction and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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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