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A documdrama detailing the research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima.

"In the spring of 1943 thousands of men and women began arriving in a remote part of south central Washington State. They knew little about why the U.S. government had hired them--only that it was a top-secret project to support the war effort. In a race against time, workers began building a massive factory to produce plutonium for the nuclear weapon that ended World War II. It was one of the biggest gambles in American history and a project that...

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

It follows the tangled lives of the residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, as they race to create the first nuclear bomb in history. Locked away in the world2s most secretive city, the scientists and their families surrender their freedoms, compromise their marriages, and even sacrifice their sanity to end one war and usher in another, the Cold War waiting just over the atomic horizon, all while embedded spies and a climate of paranoia threaten to destroy...

Germany, 1933. Hitler becomes Chancellor. Albert Einstein, a confirmed pacifist, flees Nazi Germany and takes refuge in the United States. He fears for his life, but also for his research, which he refuses to allow to fall into the wrong hands. However, even without him, Germany discovers how to split the atom, thanks to Otto Hahn.

Depicts the harrowing and true-life story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project, "Uranverein". Heisenberg's work reveals that an atom...

In August 1945, the world was transformed in the blink of an eye when American forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The destruction was unprecedented and the bombings precipitated the end of World War II. Contains archival footage and stunning photography. Interviews are from both Japanese survivors and the Americans who believed that their involvement would help end a brutal conflict.

The atomic bomb race was launched in 1939. To achieve the fission of uranium, France and Germany needed heavy water that was made in a Norwegian factory. From 1939 to 1944, the allies carried out several secret operations to prevent Hitler from seizing these stocks of heavy water. This video relates this little-known episode of the Second World War and includes unpublished testimonies, information from archives, and images interspersed throughout...