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Back in the 1930s, a brilliant Jewish physicist named Nicholas Kurti left Europe a step ahead of the Nazis. He ended up in Los Alamos working on the US government's secret project to develop the weapons that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Gastronauts by Daniel Zwerdling from
Gourmet (PAGE 130)

Why was Kurti brilliant? Because he helped the g'vment make weapons of mass destruction?