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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Becky Alexis Martin, who is a lecturer in cultural and

political geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Disarming Doomsday,

the Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima.

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We welcome Dr. Becky Alexis Martin to our Cold War conversation.

I'm here today with Dr. Becky Alexis Martin, lecturer in cultural and political geography at Manchester Metropolitan University.

We're going to be talking mainly today about her latest book, Disarming Doomsday,

The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima.

Welcome, Becky.

Thank you.

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