Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation
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The Importance of Self-Preservation
The wonders of the atomic age quickly turned into cold war paranoia and fear. We're shifted from beating the Germans to having a larger nuclear arsenal than the Soviets Yeah, why don't the kids of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just get under their desk? It's also interesting because this is technically in his way Robert Oppenheimer And his way of figuring out how to get himself out of his own moral quandary after all of this was like Well, that'm why everyone should have atomic bombs because then we'll never have war ever again.
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