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Throughline Presents: Short Wave

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English - November 09, 2019 20:09 - 25 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 14.4K ratings
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NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel shares the story of Nazi Germany's attempt to build a nuclear reactor — and how evidence of that effort was almost lost to history. It's a tale he heard from Timothy Koeth and Miriam Hiebert at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park.

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