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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Importance of Honesty in the History of Science

When the war was over, these were mostly graduate students of new PhDs who had been recruited for this program. Teller wanted the bomb program to continue because he wanted to build his hydrogen bomb. He systematically and mainly tried to exclude one by one anyone else who'd helped him work on the hydrogen bomb. So they didn't talk so much about their personal guilt.

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