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Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation

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Dying Bad Shut: A History of the Red Scare

A lot of people back in the 30s They were flirting with communist ideology because of the great depression. By the mid 50s America was gripped by the red scare and led by Wisconsin senator joseph McCarthy. Oppenheimer came into the red scare crosshires in particular because he'd previously pissed off a McCarthy ally named lewis Strauss no one liked his weepy attitude Everybody liked nobody they were all over him.

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