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

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The Importance of Separation

The Manhattan Project was run by Leslie Groves, the only person on earth who had total knowledge of the whole thing. As far as getting into Los Alamos or any of these three secret cities went, each one was perimeter by barbed wire. Almost no one had a telephone and everyone had badges and driver's licenses with ID numbers, but no names. Everyone at Los Alamos, they all had the same address - P.O. Box 1663 in Santa Fe.

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