1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos - Season 1 Episode 2 Day 573 to 979: The Trinity Test
The concept of splitting the atom and its possible implications was known to scientists across the world before the outbreak of the Second World War. President Franklin Roosevelt had been alerted to the energy generated by a nuclear chain reaction as early as August 1939, in a letter signed by Albert Einstein, which warned of the destructive possibilities of a bomb which harnessed such technology. Although Einstein did not participate in the project, not least due to his pacifist inclinations, he was terrified of the possibility of Nazi Germany developing such a weapon. Roosevelt took the warnings seriously, setting up an advisory committee to report further, but it was not until the United States’s entry into the conflict in December 1941 that decisive action was taken.This episode tells the story of the first testing of the nuclear fission bomb, code-named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert.
Year: 2015
Genre: Documentary
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Cast: Robert Weiss
Crew: Tim Ward (Producer), David Wargo (Executive Producer), Domenic Mastrippolito (Director), Tim Ward (Director), Lawrence Meli (Producer), Lawrence Meli (Executive Producer)
First Air Date: Jul 27, 2015
Last Air date: Jul 27, 2015
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 3 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 0.1659
Language: English
Keyword : atomic bomb, engineering, nuclear weapons, ethics, manhattan project, hiroshima, los alamos, nuclear age
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