The real science of the nuclear age: behind Oppenheimer - with Frank Close
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Frank Close takes us on a journey through the potentially devastating science and history of the nuclear age. This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 12 July 2025. Could the atomic energy contained in a gram of radium really drive a ship across the Atlantic? Did a traffic light near the Royal Institution really give Leo Szilard his idea of the chain reaction? And was Oppenheimer really the “father of the atomic bomb”?
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