1942-The Dawn of the Atom

1942-The Dawn of the Atom

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E20: When German physicists split the atom, Albert Einstein warned President Roosevelt of the potential for "extremely powerful bombs of a new type." Chart the course of the nuclear bomb from this letter through the first nuclear chain reaction led by physicist Enrico Fermi, the Manhattan Project, and devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.