125: The Science of Nazi Nuclear Cubes

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🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

At the end of WWII hundreds of uranium cubes made for the Nazi nuclear program were taken by the USA, but they didn't take them all. Quite a number of these nuclear cubes went missing... A few have popped up here and there, until recently it's always been near impossible to tell if a cube is real, or just a really good replica - but scientists have just found a wild new way to find which ones are fakes...

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0:00.0	What are we starting with this week?
0:03.0	YouTube comment of the month.
0:04.0	Gosh darn right.
0:06.0	Congratulations.
0:07.0	I'm getting the hang of this.
0:08.0	Good job. Look at you.
0:09.0	Thank you.
0:10.0	So, the YouTube comment of this month comes from Dara Simpson and it says, is Beyonce not the
0:15.0	world's alpha?
0:16.0	You can see in reference to last week's episode, which was about alpha male then.
0:20.0	Oh, yes. Yeah. So which was about the alpha mailman. Yeah.
0:21.6	So, maybe Beyonce is the world's alpha.
0:23.6	The world's sigma, maybe.
0:25.6	Beyonce would definitely be a sigma, wouldn't she?
0:27.6	Yeah, it would be.
0:28.6	So, I do have a question before we start.
0:29.6	So if you're listening to this on audio, then head to YouTube.
0:32.6	You mean that's not the question?
0:34.6	No.
0:35.6	No, no, no.
0:36.6	Usually I start these with a question.
0:38.3	You'll know.
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