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Thank God For The Atom Bomb | PIRATE WIRES EP#7

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The Unstoppable Chain Reaction

Rhodes' great grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge National Lab. He had like a massive existential crisis after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. There is this theme that they keep returning to: We're a engineer, we're discovering this thing and it's going to open all sorts of doors. This is a weapon that will end all wars because it is too hideous to imagine people actually using them.

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