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The Cuban Missile Crisis

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See how a power play by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev backfired, sparking a dangerous confrontation with the U.S. — the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over fifty years later, we still don’t know everything about what happened; many Soviet records are still secret. But this much is clear: October 1962 was the closest the world has ever come to thermonuclear war.

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The Bomb

The Bomb

Learn how America developed the atomic bomb and how it changed the world.

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Explore how scientific curiosity resulted in a weapon of great destruction.

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The Bomb

Secret Cities

Learn about the cities that appear around the lab and how the project is kept secret.

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Public Dialogue and Atomic Culture

See how the bomb and atomic age promised terrible fear and miraculous progress in 1946.

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