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		Animats on Aug 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transcript of taped conversations among German nuc... Right. They didn't even know plutonium existed. It was discovered in 1941, at U.C. Berkeley's cyclotron, and kept secret.

kstrauser on Aug 3, 2023 [–]

That’s nightmare fuel: finding out that your enemy is making physics bombs out of elements you weren’t aware of. It’s the plot of an X-Files or something.

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