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

Last Podcast On The Left

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The Manhattan Project and the Death Room

The Hanford site in Washington was charged with processing plutonium, just in case plutonium was the element needed to use a bomb. While Salimos, meanwhile, was the central site tasked with constructing a practical bomb that could be dropped from an airplane and destroy a German or Japanese city should the need arise.

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