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Episode 535: The Manhattan Project Part III - Sometimes You Need a Daddy

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The Importance of Being an Atomic Scientist

Mo Berg was given over to the Manhattan Project as America's first atomic spy. Groves knew that by just dropping one of his dudes into the thick of it, he very quickly had gained highly valuable operational information about the Nazi atomic bomb program. He learned enough quantum physics to be able to interrogate European physicists in their own language. "I did not go to 49 years, a bigger nuclear scientist man"

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