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Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death

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The First Atomic Bomb Test

Truman decided that the atomic bomb would be dropped on Japan. The actual site was 240 miles away in New Mexico's Hormada del Muerto Valley. None of them had a firm idea of how big the boom was going to be. They just did other versions of it of like a bomb.

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