The History of the Twentieth Century

450 The Gadget

July 5 · 41 min · Season 4 · Episode 450 · 39.6 MB
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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.