Episode 535: The Manhattan Project Part III - Sometimes You Need a Daddy
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The Jolio Curies' Saving Grace
The Jolio Curie family left Paris for Switzerland on D-Day. Frederic, a physicist by day, made Molotov cocktails with sulfuric acid and potassium chlorate to make them more deadly. With France all but taken back by the Americans, Boris Pash was coming to take Frederic and Irene Jolio Curies to safety. He found their lab covered in swastikas even though the Germans had been chased out.
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