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

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The Importance of Separation in Science

Robert Oppenheimer had been pushing for a separate place where the scientists could get together and do what scientists must do if they're going to advance their science. The system that Groves had installed around the country at all these factories and so forth was called compartmentalization for secrecy. "As soon as you lock people up and tell them they can't talk to each other, it stops," he says.

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