The Bomb podcast explores the ethical dilemma of a nuclear physicist

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Szilard: scientific epiphany turned to fear of what nuclear weapons could do © Bettmann Archive

In The Bomb, a new podcast from the BBC World Service, the American writer and journalist Emily Strasser recalls a photograph in her grandmother’s house near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which showed her grandfather standing in front of a mushroom cloud. During the second world war, George Strasser had worked at a secret facility devoted to uranium enrichment alongside thousands of other employees. Before the plant was built, the town didn’t exist.

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