On July 16th, 1945, at 529 a.m. 35 miles south of Socorro, New Mexico, the world's first

atomic bomb was detonated.

This was the culmination of the Manhattan Project, one of the largest and most expensive programs in world history.

Yet, before the event, scientists and engineers who worked on the project were entirely certain it would work,

and if it did, just what the results would be.

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Capital at risk internet banking customers only, account fees and charges apply. The story of the Manhattan Project is not one that can easily be covered in a single

episode of this podcast. The cost of the project was staggering at a time when a billion dollars was still a lot of money.

The number of people who worked on the project was likewise staggering, especially considering that the United States was in the middle of a globe-spanning two-front war.

While the theoretical science behind making a bomb was known, it was a far cry between knowing

it could theoretically be done and actually doing it.

There were several debates amongst the scientists in the Manhattan Project as to how a bomb

could and should be built.

There were different theories as to what course of action they should take.

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