Richard Rhodes
Where The making of the atomic bomb was mentioned: 5 timestamped quotes from 5 episodes across 1 podcast.
“When somebody eventually writes the equivalent of The Making of the Atomic Bomb for this era, what is the thing that will be hardest to glean from the historical record that”
Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential” · Dwarkesh Podcast
“afterwards." I interviewed Richard Rhodes, the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It’s a similar story there, obviously it took longer. I used the advance for The Prize to actually”
Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin · Dwarkesh Podcast
“in The Making of the Atomic Bomb about this. Secrecy was one of the most contentious issues early on. Leo Szilard really thought a nuclear chain reaction and an atomic bomb were possible.”
Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history · Dwarkesh Podcast
“individuals? A previous guest, Richard Rhodes, who wrote the Making of the Atomic Bomb, talked about how after the war, the different branches of the military were competing with each other to see”
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake · Dwarkesh Podcast
“author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and most recently, the author of Energy, A Human History.”
Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb · Dwarkesh Podcast