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World Service,2 mins

When the Americans and Russians actually nuked each other

Science In Action

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Seismologist Thorne Lay tells the Cold War story of how and why US military scientists let off their own nuclear bomb at a Soviet test site in Kazakhstan. Why did their Soviet counterparts conduct a similar explosion at the US Nevada test site? (Picture: A nuclear bomb explosion. Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)

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