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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Soviet Physics of the 19th Century
I remember asking them when they were working, I said on the hydrogen bomb, you didn't have any computers yet. We had guys come in who really knew their math, and they would sit there and work it out by hand. And women with old Martian calculators running numbers. There's something about Russia, I don't know if it's a language or the education, they do have good education, they did. They learned all their technology from the French in the 19th century. So they got good teachers, the French are superb technicians. They aren't so good at building things, but they're very good at designing things.
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