EPISODE · Jul 20, 2026 · 34 MIN
How Women Won WWII: By the Glow of Radium
from The Preamble · host Sharon McMahon
How did the United States successfully produce and detonate the first atomic bomb? That success happened through a combination of random events and intricately planned schemes that fed into the speeding train that was atomic technology. The U.S. pops up along those tracks, but the spark that would lead to the bomb began across the Atlantic.
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