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Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation

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The Red Scare

By the 50s america had begun to turn on the man who'd been the most responsible for constructing the bomb That man was jay robert openheimer and his reckoning came in the form of the red scare. Openheimer at the time was extremely popular and he was kind of like angling They were talking about like oh opie could be president like naynes time popular Yeah, you were ready because then he wanted to get involved in all of these various uh, basically he wanted to figure out how do I control how we Legislative things around the tarmac power from here on out He's like I want people to hear my opinion and move forward But it is interesting because then he

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