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223: Oppenheimer & The Science of Atomic Bombs

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The Origins of Nuclear Research

There were over 30 laboratories in sites, more than 100. The Oak Ridge facility produced the majority of the Uranium that was used to build Little Boy. And within about a year, they built the world's first large-scale plutonium reactor. They were sending in Rich plutonium to Los Alamos every five days.

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