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 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/richard-rhodes * Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/45tJTRa * Spotify: https://bit.ly/3BSiTNM * Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒