Thread by @akoz33

For those who understand Russian are are interested both in history of WWII and details of military technology (both engineering and science behind it) there is a fantastic new series of talks by Mark Solonin on his YouTube channel

Mark Solonin is the

most important independent historian of WWII on the Eastern Front, as well as a professional aviation engineer and aircraft designer. He begins with a detailed account of the history of the development of the atom bomb, with technical details of the science behind it and

the engineering of making one. As he says, the basic details of the first generation of atomic weapons are on Wikipedia (based mostly on reverse engineering) but there is also a lot of disinformation about the working of later technology. This is the first of the series,

featuring such fascinating & figures as Edgar Sengier, the first non-American to be awarded the Medal of Merit by the US government

and Lise Meitner, the women physicist whom Albert Einstein considered the equal of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and who was nominated 19 times for Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 29 times for Nobel Prize in Physics, without getting one (her collaborator, Otto Hahn received one in

Chemistry for their joint work).
Solonin’s talk is (as always) marked by exceptional precision and clarity.