Transcription: Prior to the war years, the scientific community openly shared research and discoveries. None of the men and women studying the atom in the early 1900s planned to build an atomic bomb. Each was interested in expanding the boundaries of human knowledge and understanding the physical universe. After Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, many German scientists fled their country to escape Nazi persecution. With the outbreak of war just around the corner in the summer of 1939, many of these scientists began to fear the development of an atomic super bomb in Germany based on the discoveries ...
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