Episode 534: The Manhattan Project Part II - A Numbers Game
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The Manhattan Project and the Allies
By June of 1942, six months before the Chicago pile succeeded, Heisenberg was running the most sophisticated nuclear fission experiments in the world. One scientist in Chicago estimated that Hitler could have an atomic bomb by the end of 1942. If those projections were correct, he would have had an atomic bomb before the Allies even started gaining footholds in Europe with the invasion of Italy. The Manhattan Project was given an immediate sense of grave urgency.
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