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The Bastard Brigade - The Accidental A-Bomb | 1

American History Tellers

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Imagine is January 1939 you're an American scientist visiting Washington DC for a conference. You see Danish physicist Neil's board one of the most famous scientists in the world when he speaks. People listen and tonight he's supposed to talk about low temperature physics, which is your specialty. But suddenly he announces that he's ditching that topic instead. He wants to talk about grave new developments in nuclear research A murmur runs through the crowd. An old colleague of yours named Bob works at the Carnegie lab down the street. The Nazis are running some of the most powerful labs in the world.

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