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S2.5 An irreversible reaction

The Bomb

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The Manhattan Project

By the full count, there were some 600 thousand workers employed by the manhattan project. Fuks works with relentless intensity on the problem of enriching uranium - a vital step if the bomb is to become reality. But as in britain, the supposedly water tight security surrounding the project has elementary and fatal flaws.

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