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Meltdown (2020)

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The Manhattan Project

Most Americans knew nothing of the Manhattan Project, or anything really about nuclear fission. At least at first, there wasn't a huge visual lexicon that the average person had about what atomic destruction looked like. Evidence of what happened began to trickle out of Japan. But they were mediated by the American government pretty heavily.

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