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94: Robert Oppenheimer, anti-fascism and the nuclear bomb

The Another Europe Podcast

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The Mindset of Scientists Working on the Atomic Bomb

The chapter explores the motivation behind scientists' desire to create the atomic bomb and their attempts to convince the elite to take the threat of Nazism seriously. It also discusses the mindset of scientists during the 1950s and their limited understanding of the bomb's destructive power.

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