
Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death
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The Trinity Test
Trinity eviscerated Jackrabbits 800 yards away. It caused temporary blindness nine miles away. At a thousand yards, pine boards set up to test destructive power were completely charred. The scientists knew exactly what dropping an atomic bomb in the middle of a city was going to do immediately. But as Robert Albert Hiber says, "That was not his job"
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