Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age

Podcast: HistoryExtra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Power & terror: a history of the nuclear agePub date: 2025-07-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the closing years of the 19th century, scientists began recording strange phenomena – mysterious glowing gas, smudges on photographic plates. Findings like these triggered a process of scientific discovery in the field of nuclear physics that would ultimately lead to unprecedented devastation at the end of the Second World War. Speaking to Matt Elton, Frank Close charts the story of the nuclear age. (Ad) Frank Close is the author of //Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965// (Allen Lane, 2025). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Destroyer-Worlds-History-Nuclear-1895-1965/dp/0241700868/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Immediate, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.