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

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The History of the Nuclear War

In September of 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and he was soon giving speeches saying that the Nazis would soon have access to a weapon that no country could defend against. Two weeks after the invasion of Poland, Hitler summoned a handful of German physicists to a secret conference in Berlin. There, they were given the task of developing an atomic bomb for the third Reich. The creation of the nuclear program started sounding pretty damn good FDR as summer turned to fall in 1939.

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