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Are we back to the Nuclear Age and its economic fears?

Second World War, 1939–1945 Photo:Courtesy

The Second World War was not won on the battle fields but in the lab. The heroes of the World War II were not frontline soldiers but nuclear physicists who unveiled the secret of nuclear, or better, the atom.

They include Enrico Fermi, J Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves, Edward Teller, Albert Einstein and others. We can’t leave out the Russian Andrei Sakharov.

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