{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69206d2c087c4173ab6a8c1f/6ac636ed8f34078889624877?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Series 14: Churchill and The Bomb Episode 2","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69206d2c087c4173ab6a8c1f/1791375059209-dc25afcb-b726-4c14-84fe-bd8104095eed.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What strategic and political potential did Churchill see in America possessing the atomic bomb when the Soviet Union did not?</p><p><br></p><p>Did he really raise the idea of a nuclear attack on Moscow?</p><p><br></p><p>How did his views change once the Russians created their own nuclear weapons?</p><p><br></p><p>And why did he come to accept the idea of mutually assured destruction , that security must be &quot;the twin brother of annihilation&quot;.</p><p><br></p><p>Join Professor Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter for some explosive answers.</p>","author_name":"Prof. Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter"}