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SUMMARY:ONE IN TEN AMERICAN LIGHT BULBS ARE LIT BY THE RUSSIANS: FAKE NEWS
 ? - Speaker to be confirmed (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Cambridge Festival of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Following the end of the Cold War\, reports\, some fake some g
 enuine\, flooded the media with claimed revelations about nuclear weapons.
  Were there missing Russian nuclear weapons designed to fit a student’s 
 backpack and were there British nuclear weapons kept at the correct temper
 ature by caged chickens within?\n\nGreatly exceeding bait for the tabloids
  extraordinary achievements resulted from western programmes to assist Rus
 sian disarmament and prevent nuclear proliferation. Although collectively 
 these may be counted alongside the Marshall Plan in terms of expenditure\,
  few knew of them\, and some that did published fake news in attempts to h
 alt or slow them.\n\nOne outstanding programme\, initiated and sustained b
 y an American academic\, was to lead to 50% of the power generated by Unit
 ed States’ Nuclear Power Stations between 1993 and 2013 being fuelled by
  uranium from or destined for Soviet Nuclear Weapons. The expression ‘On
 e in ten light bulbs are lit by the Russians’ was coined by a Secretary 
 of Energy to help get over to the public recognition of the success of wha
 t is colloquially known as the ‘Megatons to Megawatts’ agreement.\n\nT
 his talk explores accurately some of the successes and failures of the pro
 grammes and of their reporting.
LOCATION: Room SG1/2\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Ro
 ad\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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