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SUMMARY:The Scientific Reaction to Nuclear Weapons\, 1945-53 or ‘How I L
 earned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’ - Martin Theaker
DTSTART:20130122T173000Z
DTEND:20130122T190000Z
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CONTACT:Gui Xi Young
DESCRIPTION:The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 have bee
 n seen as an iconic event marking a definitive end to one form of violent 
 conflict and the beginning of a different era of brinkmanship\, strategy a
 nd Cold War. The possibility of using such destructive force produced chan
 ges in the field of diplomacy and political interaction\, but also raised 
 moral questions of the physicists and chemists who had made the weapon a r
 eality. This paper will therefore examine the reactions of the American an
 d British scientists who had worked on the atomic bomb\, and their proposa
 ls for how it should be contained\, controlled and even disposed of now th
 at it had been unleashed on the world. Once this is established\, the pape
 r will then discuss how a new field of mathematics\, game theory\, was uti
 lised by politicians to dictate their next strategies and explain the appa
 rent paradox of forcing peace by arming to the teeth.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2 Alison Richard Building
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