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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Science in the Second World War

It just strikes me as remarkable how young all of the scientists were. And here they were charged with this enormous responsibility. It was still a very dark time for them. Niels Bohr coming to Los Alamos with this vision that the bomb might be somehow a different world in a good way as well as aDifferent world in a dark way gave them some hope.

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