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 arms-race 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
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(0:00:00) - Oppenheimer movie
(0:06:22) - Was the bomb inevitable?
(0:29:10) - Firebombing vs nuclear vs hydrogen bombs
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