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why-o-whyyesterday at 5:57 AM1 replyview on HN

Well, USSR did finish, just 4 years later.

Maybe it was because we had all those immigrants working on it (e.g. Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, and John von Neumann)!


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tgvyesterday at 7:28 AM

There's a whole regiment of immigrants who worked on the Manhattan project, as we all know. We also know that the USSR obtained much of their knowledge on how to build the bomb through espionage.

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