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S2.3 Unstable elements

The Bomb

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Making an Atomic Bomb With Uranium Core

He was very em hei. He didn't sort of open up very much at all. And so you had to feed him something in order for him to respond and take part in the conversation. This is one of the happiest points in klaus fuk's life. Rudolph piles is a german jew, and his wife, genia is a jew from russia. They share klaus's hatred of the narze and theye're also pretty left wing. Fuks is at home with them. On the tube alloys programme, he's put to task finding a solution to one of the biggest problems in turning the theory of an atom bomb into reality. Creating what is essentially

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