NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Klaus Fuchs, Radionuclide, Plutonium
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Usa: hitler wanted to accept aryan science and rejected jewish science. Aryan race: the nazis believed the aryan race was genetically superior to all others and were. Natural leaders: they believed the aryan race was superior, and they wanted to build this. Hitler"s regime: this makes their actions even worse than originally thought. Academy of agricultural sciences: former president of academy vavilov rejects lysenko"s theory and is accused of anti- Soviet and anti-revolutionary activities: genetics research was actually banned in soviet union after wwii as being. States and race to produce bigger and better bombs. The trial of j. robert oppenheimer: early life and wwii, oppenheimer was a brilliant american physicist studied at harvard, britain, 1949: support for bomb increases amongst individuals with start of korean war, fears of. Oppenheimer and told him that if he resigned quietly, he could avoid aec potentially humiliating hearing: despite fact that early association with communist party likely to come out,