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Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster

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Die Hard Four and Five

Scientists at Los Alamos were hard at work producing another plutonium bomb that would be done by the end of August. The only reason why Japan escaped a third atomic bomb was because we'd already dropped all the bombs we had. Even more ghoulish was the gung-ho spirit of Paul Tibbetts, who had been the pilot that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. He wanted to drop as many bombs on Japan as it took to get them to surrender.

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