
The Bastard Brigade - The Accidental A-Bomb | 1
American History Tellers
The End of the World
The German uranium club would have a two-year head start on the US's own efforts. The Manhattan Project and allied scientists realized that if they wanted to disrupt the Nazi atomic bomb They'd have to get creative. Imagine you're a Jewish refugee in New York. It's 2 a.m. An early October morning in 1942 You and a friend a fellow physicist are getting drunk stinking drunk more drunk than you've ever been in your life. Hey burner. How you doing? Please don't give Hitler a bomb.
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