Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death
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The Manhattan Project's Proximity War
The gun method for detonation that used uranium was almost guaranteed to work. A full scale test was planned to see if the Manhattan Project could go two for two. "Trinity" was inspired by a poem about death by World War I poet John Dunn. It was tied to the false hope scientists like Niels Bohr held onto in order to justify developing an atomic weapon.
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