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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The History of the Atomic Bomb

The bomb went out as it was, because they knew it would work. But the plutonium, how are they going to assemble the plutonium if they couldn't fire it in the cannon? They didn't know. Oppenheimer almost resigned. He was so depressed by this new development. The scientists were superbly gutted this sort of thing. It was a very complicated business.

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