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1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos

1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos

The triumphs and failures of the men and women who created the world's first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. This the story of the men and women who worked on a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during the Second World War with First-hand accounts from the men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during the Second World War.

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StatusEnded
Original Name1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos
First Air DateJuly 27, 2015
Last Air DateJuly 27, 2015
Seasons1
Episodes3
Episode Runtime 0min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
Production CompaniesPBS International
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S01E03

Day 980 to 1,000: The Emergency

By the time the first device was tested on July 16, 1945, President Harry Truman was in the White House. The efforts of those who worked in Los Alamos could not be said to have won the war – by the time the first bomb levelled Hiroshima on August 6, Germany had already surrendered and Japan was near to collapse – but they certainly shortened the conflict and saved thousands of American lives.

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