Critical Mass: America's race to build the atomic bomb

How it feels

This film covers the scientific and political efforts to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War Two. It shows the key people, decisions, and events that led to the atomic bomb.

educationalhistoricalsoberinginformativeneutral toneslow-pacedreflectiveserious

What happens

Critical Mass: America's Race to Build the Atomic Bomb is a 1996 multimedia presentation originally published by Corbis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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