Cruel Bombs: The Frightening History Of The Nuke | War Factories | War Stories
"The enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable" – The words of Japanese Emperor Hirohito after nuclear weapons were used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Some of the worlds greatest minds came together in the early 1940’s to work on the Manhattan Project. What they created was a weapon so unrivalled in its destructive capacity, that it changed the world forever.
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00:00 Introduction
01:14 The Manhattan Project
05:22 HH Promo
05:58 History of the nuke