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The Curse of Knowing Too Much

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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The Disappearing Spoon: A Science History Podcast

The US government patented the atomic bomb during World War II. To this day no one knows why. Was he simply trying to protect them? Or was he caught in the web of something bigger, something darker and more deadly? Something perhaps related to those atomic secrets?

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