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23 May 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb
“I don't know how many people were working on it when he became president, but hundreds of thousands of people are working on it.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- uncertainty
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- 23 May 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Yeah This is actually one of the questions I want to ask you. Truman, when he became president, he had to be told about it. He didn't know about it, right? I don't know how many people were working on it when he became president, but hundreds of thousands of people are working on it. The vice president doesn't know about it. He only learns about it as president. How was it possible that with so many people working on it, the vice president doesn't know that the atom bomb is in the works? How did they keep that so under wraps? One of Roosevelt’s several vice presidents famously said, the vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm piss.…
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