Is There Any Defense Against Atomic Warfare?

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

George V. Denny, Jr. - Moderator
Speakers are:

Brien McMahon, U..S Senator from Connecticut and Chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and author of the McMahon Act

Harold C. Urey, Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and produced 'heavy water' in his lab at Columbia University in 1934.

David Bradley - Author of "No Place to Hide" and one of the Army doctors who went to the Bikini atoll to observe the atomic bomb tests there.

Leslie R. Groves.- Headed the Manhattan Project which produced the world's first atomic bomb.


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