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Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.

Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists.

This is the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs

in science, technology, and and medicine with me Chris Smith and today

we're exploring the science behind the atomic bomb and how it altered the course of modern warfare. Modern Warfare.

Now the name Robert Oppenheimer may not have been that familiar to many people before the release of the

Hollywood blockbuster recently bearing his name, but he was the physicist who worked to realize

the industry of British, American and other scientists in creating the atomic bomb.

It's now the anniversary of the date 78 years ago when the United States dropped two nuclear bombs

on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War. In the present, the Russians have

continued to rattle their nuclear saber following the invasion of Ukraine. So how do these weapons

work? What's their history? And what will be the fallout, both literally, as well as metaphorically, if Vladimir Putin were to press the big red button.

Well that's what we're going to explore this week and to kick us off his will tingle.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

It's a quote etched in history.

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