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Admiral Hoover recalls birth of atomic bomb origins
Rear Admiral Gilbert C Hoover ret. recounts hearing of the first atomic bomb while in New Jersey and his early Navy involvement in nuclear research. He describes a 1939 White House meeting with Einstein linked to fission research and the formation of a uranium advisory group.
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