In
1939, as Europe prepared for war, the Nazis led the world in the race for the
atomic bomb. Yet six years later it was the Americans who dropped the first
nuclear bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
Showing posts with label Atomic Bomb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atomic Bomb. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Japan’s Atomic Bomb
Today on Far Future Horizons we examine some
intriguing evidence that the Japanese developed their own atomic bomb and detonated it days before they surrendered?
Since the end of the Second World War, conventional wisdom claimed that Imperial Japan
was years away from building an atomic weapon. Today’s documentary feature shatters
that view.
Monday, January 19, 2015
The Manhattan Project
On July 16th, 1945 at 5:29:45 AM in Alamogordo, New
Mexico at a location known as the Jornada del Muerto ("Journey of Death") desert a new age dawned and humanity in the deepest sense began its own journey of death.
Today on Far Future Horizons we take a voyage back in time to the dawn of the Atomic Age and revisit – The Manhattan Project.
Today on Far Future Horizons we take a voyage back in time to the dawn of the Atomic Age and revisit – The Manhattan Project.
In its race against the Nazis to develop an atomic
bomb, the United States of America assigned some of the world’s leading scientists
to The Manhattan Project, an
incredible scientific, engineering and manufacturing enterprise which would
have everlasting global consequences for the future of humanity.
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