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Episode 533: The Manhattan Project Part I - The Living Dead

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The Importance of Free Speech

Enrico Fermi recognized that nuclear fission could be harnessed into a weapon, especially in the hands of a group as aggressive as the Nazis. Another scientist who realized this was a Jewish refugee from Hungary named Leo Sillard. He knew that if they did not publish, they would be beat trying. The story is about what happened on Long Island when Albert Einstein fled Germany years before long island.

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