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Learn how America developed the atomic bomb and how it changed the world.
5:21
Examine the 1962 crisis — the closest the world has ever come to thermonuclear war.
5:27
See how the bomb and atomic age promised terrible fear and miraculous progress in 1946.
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Learn about the cities that appear around the lab and how the project is kept secret.