Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster
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The Little Boy Bomb
The citizens of Hiroshima were fried because they'd been woken up every night for weeks by air raid warnings. But with every warning, the firebombing that had ravaged so many other Japanese cities hadn't come. So the people of Hiroshima began to think that maybe they'd be spared the fate of cities like Tokyo where over a hundred thousand people had been burned alive.
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