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Welcome to the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk posted on April 24th, 2014.

I'm Steve Murski.

March 1914 saw the publication of the H.G. Wells book, The World Set Free,

in which Wells mused about nuclear war and coined the term atomic bomb. World War I started a few months

later and World War II brought that bomb into existence. Graham Farmelow's latest book is

called Churchill's bomb, how the United States overtook Britain in the first nuclear arms race.

Did you know that Churchill and H.G. Wells were buddies? Well, listen to

Farmelow explain. He's usually based in London, but we caught up at Scientific American the last time

he was in New York. First, Graham Farmelow, so great that you could come back and visit us again.

The strangest man was the last book, and we talked about

that at length, and that was terrific, and we had a great conversation. And now Churchill's bomb,

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