Richard Feynman: "The Kid They Ignored Cracked Every Safe"

Richard Feynman: "The Kid They Ignored Cracked Every Safe"

I was nobody at Los Alamos.
I didn't have my degree yet. I was twenty-four years old. The youngest person they'd ever made a group leader. But that didn't mean anyone took me seriously.
The great minds were there. Oppenheimer. Bohr. Fermi. They worried about the big decisions. I worried about nothing important. I was just flittering around underneath, doing calculations, running the computing room.
Nobody watched the quiet kid from New York.
So nobody noticed when I started opening their safes. Every single one of them.
This is the story of how the kid they ignored cracked every safe at Los Alamos.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - The Ignored Kid
0:30 - Opening Every Safe
1:01 - Los Alamos Security Was a Joke
1:59 - Learning to Crack Combination Locks
4:16 - The Pi Combination (31-41-59)
5:27 - The Notes: "Same Guy, Wise Guy"
6:17 - De Hoffmann's Panic
7:03 - Feynman the Safecracker
8:12 - Trinity Test
9:17 - What I Needed to Prove

SOURCES:
Feynman, Richard P. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Chapter: "Safecracker Meets Safecracker"
Los Alamos National Laboratory Archives
Manhattan Project Historical Records
Historical photo courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
All facts verified from historical records and Feynman's autobiographical accounts.

DISCLAIMER: This is a dramatic retelling of real events, narrated in first person to bring Feynman's story to life. The voice is AI-generated and is not an imitation of Richard Feynman. All facts are sourced from historical records.

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