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The doomsday clock

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Christopher Nolan's Hollywood film Oppenheimer tells the story of the father of the atomic bomb. And one of the other key players in the creation of the bomb was the scientist Leo Szilard. He was instrumental to both the creation of the bomb, and later, the fight to stop it being used. The writer Emily Strasser鈥檚 family was involved too, and she tells the story of the chain reaction onwards from the splitting of the atom.

The world鈥檚 first nuclear bomb drops on the unsuspecting city of Hiroshima. On 7 August 1945, the world is changed forever.

In this final episode, featuring first-hand accounts of the attack that day, Emily Strasser asks how the bomb changed humanity.

Have we really come to terms with it?

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27 minutes

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Sat 2 Dec 2023 22:32GMT

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