WWII Science & Technology: The Race That Changed Everything - Part 4: Operation Paperclip: The Moral Calculus of Hiring Your Enemy's Monsters
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The uncomfortable truth about America's space program: it was built by men who designed weapons for Hitler. Operation Paperclip recruited Nazi scientists to win the Cold War—and buried their pasts. Was it justified? The answer is more disturbing than the question.