Richard Rhodes Making of Atomic Bomb, WW2, Oppenheimer, AI, Apocalypse

It was a tremendous honor pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb We discuss: similarities between AI progress Manhattan Project (developing a powerful, unprecedented, potentially apocalyptic technology within an uncertain armsrace situation) visiting starving former Soviet scientists during fall of Soviet Union whether Oppenheimer was a spy, consulting on the Nolan movie living through WW2 as a child odds of nuclear war in Ukraine, Taiwan, Pakistan, North Korea how the US pulled of such a massive secret wartime scientific industrial project Transcript: Apple Podcasts: Spotify: Follow me on Twitter: Timestamps (0:00:00) Oppenheimer movie (0:06:22) Was the bomb inevitable (0:29:10) Firebombing vs nuclear vs hydrogen bombs (0:49