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Sep 2020
28m 56s

S1.7 The doomsday clock

Bbc World Service
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<p>The world’s first nuclear bomb drops on the unsuspecting city of Hiroshima. On 7 August 1945, the world is changed forever. In this final episode, featuring first-hand accounts of the attack that day, Emily Strasser asks how the bomb changed humanity. Have we really come to terms with it? #thebomb</p> 
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