Epstein Secrets

ion of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “secretive frame of mind paralleled in history only in the Venice of the Renaissance.” Wiener, echoing many outspoken veterans of the Manhattan Project, argued that the postwar obsession with secrecy—especially arou

versation for Edge, began to talk and didn’t stop for two and a half hours. The essay that follows is an edited version of that session, which was a Wolfram master class of sorts and is an appropriate way to end this volume—just as Stephen’s Reality Club talk in the ’80s was a great way to initiate the on

ion of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “secretive frame of mind paralleled in history only in the Venice of the Renaissance.” Wiener, echoing many outspoken veterans of the Manhattan Project, argued that the postwar obsession with secrecy—especially arou

versation for Edge, began to talk and didn’t stop for two and a half hours. The essay that follows is an edited version of that session, which was a Wolfram master class of sorts and is an appropriate way to end this volume—just as Stephen’s Reality Club talk in the ’80s was a great way to initiate the on

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