The Bomb

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Learn the powerful story of the most destructive invention in human history.

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Learn the powerful story of the most destructive invention in human history.

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About the Show

It began innocently enough. In 1938, two German chemists accidentally discovered how to split the nucleus of the uranium atom: nuclear fission. Einstein’s E=mc2 equation predicted that the amount of energy released from just one atom would be enormous.

Physicists all over the world immediately realized that fission might make a bomb of extraordinary power — and that Nazi Germany might be capable of creating one.

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