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Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The History of Nuclear Weapons
The history of nuclear weapons. It's remarkable how they were originally developed, because researchers were afraid of the consequences if malicious people got hold of them. Specifically, notse germany was the concern of beo sillard and albert einstein when they wrote the letter that launched the manhattan project. But what's not so well known is that once germany surrendered in world war tube, sillard launched a petition within the top secret manhattan project to stop Japan from getting bomb. He argued it wouldn't save many american lives by preventing an invasion but would call attention to the power of nuclear weaponry.
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