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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Importance of Physics in the Second World War
At some point, as you mentioned, it was becoming obvious. that Hitler, the Nazis were not close to the bomb. And I believe that almost none of the scientists quit after they found out that the Nazis were in close. So why didn't more of them say, oh, I guess we were wrong, the Nazis aren't going to get it. We don't need to be working on it? There was only one, Joseph Redblatt, when he heard that Germany had been defeated in May of 1945. He packed up and left.
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