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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Oppenheimer: A Communist Spy

There's evidence that Oppenheimer wasn't a communist spy, or he wasn't directly a communist spy. Is there any possibility that he was leaking information to the Soviets or in some way helping the Soviet program? He was a communist empathetic, right? He had been during the 1930s. But less for the theory, if you will, than before the practical business of helping Jews escape from Nazi Germany.

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