War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to the Pacific War on film.

This is our final episode in the series, our 17th movie that we're going to be looking

at, and then we have a special surprise for you at the end.

And as I promised last time,

we are discussing the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy,

which is, of course, about the Manhattan Project

and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Dirosima and Nagasaki.

We've taken you through quite a tour of World War II on film.

We've talked about battles as well as other things, topics.

We've talked about Pearl Harbor, Midway, Saipan, Iwojima, quite a bit, Okinawa and other

battles.

We've talked about submarines and surface ships and all kinds of fun stuff.

So now, again, the atomic bomb.

That's the topic of this film.

This film is two hours and six minutes in length.

And this is definitely one of our lowest rated movies, maybe the lowest.

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