CSPAN3 Lectures In History July 6, 2014
This class is a little more than an hour. We are going to be talking today about the radiation experiments. And by the radiation experiments, i mean experiments done in around the Second World War and the cold war, a fairly heterogeneous set of experiments. All unified by the fact that they are studying the interaction of human beings and radioactivity. A very curious phenomenon of radioactivity that came, i guess, to its biggest fruition with the explosion over hiroshima and subsequently nagasaki in august 1945. We need to talk a little bit about the context in which they were done. First, we...