The making of the atomic bomb was mentioned 5 times on Dwarkesh Podcast in 5 episodes.
“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”
“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”
“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.”
“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”