The History Today Podcast: July 17th

In this edition of the podcast, Richard Rhodes of Stanford University, who writes the cover story in the August issue of History Today, discusses the history of power, and how changing fuel sources has affected human civilisation in different ways.

Richard is the author of The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, and his article on energy transitions, How Oil Became King, can be read in the August issue, which is out this week.

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