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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Parallel Approaches in Project Management

In natural uranium, one part in 140 is an isotope called uranium-235. Physically they're identical; the only physical difference is a very slight difference in mass and weight. The Manhattan Project tried every method that the scientists had conceived of to make these materials. Glenn Seaborg scaled up plutonium from his first almost invisible spec.

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