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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age (1986-12-15)
About this film
Abdus Salam was an early member of Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission and a Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1979. In the interview he describes the development of Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission. He explains that Pakistan had no training programs in the basic sciences in the late 1950s; therefore, the commission had to train many people in the sciences to enhance the country's research capabilities. He describes the Geneva Conferences on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy of the 1950s as "amazing," especially speeches given by Niels Bohr and Homi Bhabha. He also discusses the future of nuclear energy in Pakistan.
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WGBH
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Abdus Salam, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, I. H. Usmani, Nazir Ahmed, Niels Bohr, Homi Bhabha, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ayub Khan, Atoms for Peace, International Atomic Energy Agency, Geneva Conferences on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Nuclear energy, Physics, Science education, PINSTECH, Nuclear agriculture
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