One of the best books I’ve ever read is The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book by Richard Rhodes. If you want an extremely in-depth history of the science and people behind Manhattan project, I would highly recommend reading it.

ambyra · 10m ago

Podcast/narrated version would be cool.

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An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

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