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Secret Cities

5m 37s

To create the bomb, a vast industrial complex is built with cities appearing out of nowhere. Thousands of workers are recruited, but are told only enough to do their own job, nothing more. Yet despite the urgency of the crisis, a huge pool of potential talent is virtually ignored. Women are typists and secretaries, and run schools and libraries. But scarcely any scientists or engineers are women.

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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 Cuban Missile Crisis

Examine the 1962 crisis — the closest the world has ever come to thermonuclear war.

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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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