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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Making of the Bomb
The bomb was pushed so hard during the Second World War because we thought the Germans had already started working on one. The only way you could find out something was to send in a spy or have a mole, and we didn't have that evidently. When Niels Bohr escaped from Denmark in 1943 he brought with him a rough sketch of what German scientists were doing.
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