• A Silly Name for the H-Bomb

  • Mar 20 2025
  • Duración: 23 m
  • Podcast

A Silly Name for the H-Bomb

  • Resumen

  • The 1950s trend - which caused mockery and anger - for calling the hydrogen bomb "clean" or "humanitarian". Could the Americans make this awful weapon clean, or was it just a ploy to quiet our fear of fallout, and silence calls to ban nuclear testing?


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    Julie

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