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[–] Socsa 37 points 6 months ago

In some cases these scientists are why the Nazis didn't get nukes because they were quietly sabotaging the program by pursuing known dead ends. Scientists in the US were actually baffled by the lack of progress, since German scientists were publishing good theoretical work.