Part One COLD WAR COMRADES: At the height of the Cold War the prominent American cardiologist who had already invented the direct current defibrillator, saving untold millions of lives worldwide, fortuitously met a Soviet fellow cardiologist and together they embarked on a path to save more lives than they ever could as doctors. In 1981 Dr. Bernard Lown and his Russian friend Dr. Yevgeni Chazov co-founded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Within a few years the organization was 150,000 doctors and scientists stronger and in 1985 Doctors Lown and Chazov shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Bernard Lown is our guest today. Part Two NO NUKES DOCS!: World War II took the entire planet, not just the United States and Japan, into the nuclear age. Knowing that there was no turning back and before there was an International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, scientists and doctors came together to publish The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. From the beginning, the publication included an ominous logo, the Doomsday Clock, meant to warn us all how close at any given time in our shared history, humans were taking the world to proximity with nuclear Armageddon. At the height of the arms race in 1953 the clocks hands were set at 2 minutes to midnight, the closest moment yet to a nuclear holocaust. When the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in 19991, the clock?s hands were reset at the furthest from midnight ever, 11:43. We return now to Dr. Lown and his life-long quest for an end to the nuclear threat.

Part One COLD WAR COMRADES: At the height of the Cold War the prominent American cardiologist who had already invented the direct current defibrillator, saving untold millions of lives worldwide, fortuitously met a Soviet fellow cardiologist and together they embarked on a path to save more lives than they ever could as doctors. In 1981 Dr. Bernard Lown and his Russian friend Dr. Yevgeni Chazov co-founded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Within a few years the organization was 150,000 doctors and scientists stronger and in 1985 Doctors Lown and Chazov shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Bernard Lown is our guest today. Part Two NO NUKES DOCS!: World War II took the entire planet, not just the United States and Japan, into the nuclear age. Knowing that there was no turning back and before there was an International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, scientists and doctors came together to publish The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. From the beginning, the publication included an ominous logo, the Doomsday Clock, meant to warn us all how close at any given time in our shared history, humans were taking the world to proximity with nuclear Armageddon. At the height of the arms race in 1953 the clocks hands were set at 2 minutes to midnight, the closest moment yet to a nuclear holocaust. When the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in 19991, the clock?s hands were reset at the furthest from midnight ever, 11:43. We return now to Dr. Lown and his life-long quest for an end to the nuclear threat.