EPISODE · Jul 5, 2026 · 41 MIN
450 The Gadget
from The History of the Twentieth Century
By 1944, the United States had developed the facilities to produce U-235 and plutonium in sufficient quantities. The last problem was how to design and build a bomb that would detonate an atomic explosion when you wanted it, but not before.
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