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223: Oppenheimer & The Science of Atomic Bombs

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Iodine Tablets for the Nuclear Apocalypse

Luke: I just, it's baffling to me that this is something that was remotely allowed to happen. Get some iodine if you can. Do you know why iodine works? Because it fills up all of the areas that the radioactive material would otherwise go into. What did Oppenheimer say when he first saw that you're on the contest? Ah, I am now I have become Death. Now I am become Death Destroyer of Worlds.

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