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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Importance of Uranium in Weapons
There was a great rush at the end of the Second World War to get hold of German scientists. All of the leading German scientists like Heisenberg and Han went west as fast as they could. They didn't want to be captured by the Soviet, but there were some who were, and they helped them work. The important material for weapons is the uranium or plutonium. If that's true, then all this business about secret designs and so forth is hogwash.
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