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223: Oppenheimer & The Science of Atomic Bombs

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The History of the Nazis

After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Albert Einstein and a few others said to the US government, Hey, there is some scary stuff here. So essentially, Oppenheimer started to find a what to try and find a process to separate uranium 235 from natural uranium. And then and then find out how much like basically how much uranium you needed to make a nuclear bomb. In August of 1942, the US Army was given the responsibility of organizing the efforts of British and US physicists to seek away to hardest nuclear energy for military purposes.

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