MSNBC To End All War Oppenheimer the Atomic Bomb June 4, 2024 02:38:00
(hitler shouting in german) bird: oppenheimer feared he was still in a race with the germans. even as late as the summer of '44, they had no real intelligence about where they were on the german bomb project. carr: and so, if they don't crack the plutonium problem, they may not have a bomb in time. norris: oppenheimer shifted the laboratory into, you know, full-speed panic mode. wellerstein: they had had some ideas for other types of bomb designs which they had thrown around at the very beginning of the project but dismissed 'cause they seemed too difficult. but one of them was called implosio...