This is simply not true. Many at Los Alamos knew exactly what they were making. Your average worker at Oak Ridge had no idea what they were doing.
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Originally Posted by Lottoguy
There were actually over 100,000 people involved in making the atomic bomb. NOT one of them knew what they were making. It was all perfectly handled thru compartmentalization. A practice the government had mastered. Throw in the saying "need to know" and that doubles the security needed.
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