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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Manhattan Project and the History of Science

The scientists at Los Alamos didn't have any spare time. Saturday night was divided to square dancing and getting drunk, he says. "I've never heard anyone say we made a great breakthrough" The whole development of the big machines of science came after the war,. He's writing a book about this right now; it will be published in 2025.

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