From Polaris to Peace: Cold War Secrets Revealed

from People Of Distinction · host Al Cole

Discover how a scrappy team of Berkeley physicists outmaneuvered Soviet nuclear threats and changed Cold War history. From Berkeley to Berlin reveals the untold story of Ernest Lawrence’s Rad Lab—from Manhattan Project secrets to the Polaris missile breakthrough that let JFK stare down Khrushchev. This is science, politics, and brinkmanship at their most explosive.

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