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Episode 534: The Manhattan Project Part II - A Numbers Game

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Heisenberg's work on nuclear fission was completely stalled by 1943 at the same time. By 1942, Japan had also been making progress on atomic research. But this didn't really bother them because Japanese scientists believe that neither the United States nor even their allies Germany would be able to produce a nuclear bomb before the war ended.

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