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Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics Aug 27, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 10:07 David Friedberg For those not aware, that's the Manhattan Project.
  • ▶ 16:03 Eric Weinstein In the spring walked out in protest of the Vietnam war, including people who had been part of the Manhattan project.
  • ▶ 47:05 Eric Weinstein This is how people outside of the Manhattan Project, outside of the white badges, treated their colleagues who weren't allowed inside the Manhattan Project. 2 times in the scene

Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios Aug 24, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:15 Michael Kratsios If we look back and think about the Manhattan Project or Apollo, um, these are sort of seismic events that, that only the U.S. government could bring together the ecosystem to, to achieve.
  • ▶ 22:06 David Friedberg The Human Genome Project, Manhattan Project, Apollo Moon Mission.
  • ▶ 36:36 David Friedberg Human Genome Project, Manhattan Project, Apollo, and so on.

Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback Aug 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:38 Gavin Baker Like, that, that's actually more, that makes the two-fifty IQ intellect more valuable, is because it can farm out past, and just in the same way, you know, if we're gonna use the Manhattan Project analogy, you know, everybody, you know,… 2 times in the scene

Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections Jun 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:12 David Friedberg And there was a lot of scientists, altruists, who were very concerned about the progress on the atomic bomb and fought back against it, who were actually active in the Manhattan Project and post the Manhattan Project expressed their… 2 times in the scene

SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis? May 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:10 David Friedberg No, I, I think I was just talking to some people on Zoom right before this, but I think after the Manhattan Project, the research labs were set up to maintain our scientists that worked on the, the Manhattan Project from effectively… 2 times in the scene

War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Mar 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:18:12 Emil Michael Like, you know, being a, being in government service for a long time has sort of reduced in its stature since the Manhattan Project.

Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes Dec 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:08 Jason Calacanis We need to figure out healthcare, homes, and education, and make those free, close to free, and do a Manhattan Project on creating 10 new cities with ten million new homes,

Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:07 Brad Gerstner Is 10 times the size of the Manhattan Project that was totally federally funded, okay?

Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025 Sep 9, 2025 · 1 mention

The Hidden Truth About the US Energy Grid: Subsidies, Demand & Rising Prices - Chris Wright Sep 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis Aug 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:55 Ben Shapiro Maybe it's more like, maybe it's more like the Manhattan Project for AI than it is like a market-driven thing.

Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview Jun 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:56 Jared Isaacman You know, when you had the Manhattan Project, we, uh, we had the, the technical know-how, the will, and the resources to get something done, and we set up facilities where we needed them.

Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO May 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior | All-In DC May 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:12 David Friedberg So this feels like a massive challenge for America, like going to the moon, fighting World War II in Europe, a Manhattan Project style set of solutions are needed to address this.
  • ▶ 30:33 Doug Burgum So, but again, think of it literally as a Manhattan Project. 2 times in the scene

DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias Apr 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz Mar 15, 2025 · 1 mention

JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant Feb 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:39 Naval Ravikant Because if it was truly the Manhattan Project, if they were building nuclear weapons, you wouldn't want one company to own that.

New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale Dec 7, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:42 Joe Lonsdale If you, when we went to the moon, when we fought the world wars, you know, when we did the Manhattan Project, the people making those decisions in hiring people had to pass things that really only like five, 10% of people could pass who…

Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive Aug 16, 2024 · 1 mention

All-In Summit: Ray Dalio on the rise and fall of nations and the changing world order Sep 17, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:24 Ray Dalio But, but, but a bipartisan cabinet, bipartisan cabinet, and, ah, and then have an engineering exercise, much like the Manhattan Project,

E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions! Jan 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:21:55 Jason Calacanis I am really looking forward to in film Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's movie about the Manhattan project.

E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more Oct 29, 2022 · 1 mention

#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril Jun 23, 2022 · 1 mention

E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more Apr 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:26 Jason Calacanis We need to have like a Manhattan project to just scoop up all these mutant geniuses from around the world and get them here and get them starting companies here.

E39: West coast super drought & climate crisis, Nuclear virtue signaling, chaos in SF & more Jul 9, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:58 Jason Calacanis If we just go on a Manhattan project literally to make new nuclear, we would be this issue would be behind us and we could focus on something else like education.

E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more Mar 27, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:34 David Friedberg So if you go back and you think about like the Manhattan project and the Apollo mission, you know, those were very expensive government programs that have a very specific mandate, but because there were big investments and difficult…

E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing Mar 20, 2021 · 1 mention

E16: Reflecting on the riots at the US Capitol, plus: Georgia runoffs, vaccine distribution & more Jan 8, 2021 · 2 mentions

E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency Jul 11, 2020 · 1 mention

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