Emilio Segrè  “It was Wartime…”
The Manhattan Project

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Emilio Segrè  “It was Wartime…”
The Manhattan Project

Emilio Segrè speaking (excerpt) on his experience with the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Recorded March 23, 1989 at the East Bay Media Center in Berkeley CA. Produced by Berkeley Citizen

From Wikipedia
From 1943 to 1946 he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a group leader for the Manhattan Project. He found in April 1944 that Thin Man, the proposed plutonium gun-type nuclear weapon, would not work because of the presence of plutonium-240 impurities

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