Throughline Presents: Short Wave

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Rhonda Bddf.
0:01.4	I'm Romty and I'm Louis.
0:02.9	And today we've got something special for you.
0:05.6	A story about science and failure.
0:09.1	And how some really interesting evidence of that failure
0:12.4	was almost lost to history.
0:14.1	It's a story that we heard on MPR's new daily science podcast,
0:17.8	Shortwave.
0:19.0	And here to help us set it up is the host of Shortwave, Maddie Sophia.
0:22.8	Hey Maddie.
0:23.5	Hey you too.
0:24.3	Hey.
0:24.8	Hey you for having me on, I am a big fan.
0:26.9	So before we get to it, spoiler free.
0:30.0	What do we need to know?
0:31.0	So this is a story from our colleague
0:33.2	on the MPR science desk, Jeff Brumfield.
0:35.3	And you'll hear him in a second.
0:37.3	And it's kind of a story that doesn't always make it
0:39.6	into the textbooks partially, as you said,
0:41.9	because it's about failure.
0:43.8	And in science, we're used to hearing things about
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