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Eric Weinstein

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

1944.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Okay.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

So the entire Manhattan Project leaked because a Cleveland journalist named Jack Raper happened to vacation in New Mexico and stumbled on the greatest secret ever kept.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Really?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

How can we not know this, Joe?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Wow.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

And it's all about Oppenheimer.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Residents must stay.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Dr. Oppenheimer is a Harvard graduate, attended Cambridge.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

She's a PhD from Gottingham University in Germany, professor of physics, University of California, California Institute of Technology, and is a fellow of too many organizations to enumerate.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

And so they were recognizing that Oppenheimer was doing something.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

They knew that he was working on a doomsday device.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Uncle Sam has placed the city in charge of two men, the men who command the soldiers.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

I can't read it.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

So what I'm trying to say is Jack Raper never got a Pulitzer Prize, died in obscurity.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Leslie Groves, who was the other guy who was running the town, decided to send him to the Pacific to punish him for being the best journalist in America.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

And when he found out he was 60 years old, they decided, okay, we're just going to ignore this story and hope everyone else does because it's too crazy to be real.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Now, what I'm telling you right now is Raper never figured out what Los Alamos was, but he knows that it doesn't make sense.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

I'm telling you Renaissance technologies doesn't make sense.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2503 - Eric Weinstein

Oh, that Jack Raper with his overactive imagination.