The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

Chocolate Cake & Atomic Bombs

Aug 1, 2020

23:52

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A story for the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs: How a now-forgotten teahouse in Los Alamos and its unlikely owners—the spitfire Edith Warner and the Pueblo builder Tilano Montoya—influenced Robert Oppenheimer and changed the face of the whole Manhattan Project...

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