Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death
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The Bombay Bomb
At 3 a.m., two of the nuclear technicians radio Tinian Tower and said, judge going to work. That signaled that the assembly of the bomb was underway in the Bombay thousands of feet above the Pacific Ocean. It took 11 steps to assemble the bomb, but as one technician put it, only a suicidal maniac would have made the assembly dangerous. Five minutes later, Hiroshima came into sight at 9 15 AM.
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