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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The History of the Second World War
I can't remember in my entire life a more patriotic time than the Second World War. We were all consumed with winning this thing, which didn't seem to be a certain thing at all before around 1943. Despite those changes, people were very, very patriotic and fought in every way we could to win the war. The Boy Scouts took it as their special responsibility to collect the fibers that come off milkweed with its little ball that blows away because it was used in place of K-POC to line life vests for sailors. They collected 500,000 tons of milkweed fluff in the course of the war.
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