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EPISODE · Dec 25, 2024 · 49 MIN

391 The Manhattan Project

from The History of the Twentieth Century

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the American atom bomb project kicked into high gear. Fearful that the Germans were already working on a bomb and had a head start, the US government built a huge program meant to approach the problem of building an atom bomb from several different angles all at once.

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