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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The History of the American Bomb

We bought a British engineer, brought him over at great expense to teach us how to make the lining for the canals that opened up the middle West and then the West. So they were doing the same thing. Harry Gold was the connection between David Greenglass and one of the American spies at Los Alamos and the Soviet Union. And therefore when barrier after the war said, give us the bomb, he meant give me the American bomb because we know that works. I don't trust you guys. Who knows what you'll do? You're probably too stupid anyway.

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