Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death
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The Mystery of the Mushroom Cloud
President Franklin Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. The Manhattan Project was set to be completed by the summer of 1945. Richard Feynman and Otto Frisch had conducted what they called the Dragon experiment in late 1944. It proved that a chain reaction could be used to create a massive explosion with military capacity.
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