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    Explore "nuclearhistory" with insightful episodes like "From the Vault: The Atomic Scar", "How Women Won WWII: The Women of the Secret Cities", "From the Vault: The Atomic Scar", "Seen Any Nazi Uranium? Researchers Want To Know" and "Seen Any Nazi Uranium? These Researchers Want To Know" from podcasts like ""Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "Here's Where It Gets Interesting", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "Short Wave" and "Short Wave"" and more!

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    From the Vault: The Atomic Scar

    From the Vault: The Atomic Scar

    The creation of atomic weaponry changed human civilization forever, but it also left its mark on the Earth itself -- in both obvious and subtle ways. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss some of the ways in which the world would not be the same. (originally published 9/24/2020)

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    How Women Won WWII: The Women of the Secret Cities

    How Women Won WWII: The Women of the Secret Cities

    Today, on How Women Won WWII, we talk about The Manhattan Project. The top-secret program ran for three war-filled years and employed over 120 thousand people. Most of those people had no idea that they were working on one of the most powerful projects of all time: creating nuclear weapons.


    Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

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    Written and researched by: Heather Jackson, Sharon McMahon, Valerie Hoback, and Amy Watkin



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    From the Vault: The Atomic Scar

    From the Vault: The Atomic Scar

    The creation of atomic weaponry changed human civilization forever, but it also left its mark on the Earth itself -- in both obvious and subtle ways. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss some of the ways in which the world would not be the same. (originally published 9/24/2020)

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    Seen Any Nazi Uranium? Researchers Want To Know

    Seen Any Nazi Uranium? Researchers Want To Know
    Encore episode. NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel shares the story of Nazi Germany's attempt to build a nuclear reactor — and how evidence of that effort was almost lost to history. It's a tale he heard from Timothy Koeth and Miriam Hiebert at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park. Read more on their original story in Physics Today.

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    Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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    Seen Any Nazi Uranium? These Researchers Want To Know

    Seen Any Nazi Uranium? These Researchers Want To Know
    NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel shares the story of Nazi Germany's attempt to build a nuclear reactor — and how evidence of that effort was almost lost to history. It's a tale he heard from Timothy Koeth and Miriam Hiebert at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park. Read more on their original story in Physics Today. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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