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Human Intelligence Manhattan Project Episodes

    Albert Einstein

    How a world famous pacifist jump-started the Manhattan Project and revolutionised science.

    Lise Meitner

    The woman who discovered nuclear fission but would have nothing to do with the bomb.

    John von Neumann

    The game theory pioneer who made the information age possible.

    Niels Bohr

    A scientific genius who saw poetry in the subatomic world.

    J Robert Oppenheimer

    The father of the atom bomb who longed to be an all-American hero.