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No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Story of Fermi Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is the person who, when they were setting up the Manhattan Project, they came to him and said, we want you to head this up. But even though he was given all of this high clearance and he was the head of this very secret operation, he was under constant surveillance because they also thought that he was a communist. He once got in a car crash because he tried to race a train and failed. How would you compare against Hitler and the top trumps, please? That's the next one question, James, when you want to give out. Sorry.

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