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“RADIATION didn’t do me any harm,” smiled Bertrand Goldschmidt, who ran
France’s nuclear policy for over 20 years. He is 90 years old and still fit
enough to walk to the restaurant to meet me for lunch. Goldschmidt is the last
man alive to have been hired by Marie Curie.

“I agree,” said Akbar Etamad, who was the Shah of Iran’s nuclear adviser. He
looks well under 60, but refuses to talk about his age.

We were eating in a Paris restaurant as I started to research a film about
nuclear terror. As a psychologist, I’ve always been interested in…

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