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On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb in history was exploded in the so-called Trinity Test. It was the result of years of work on the largest scientific and military initiative seen so far, the Manhattan Project. This documentary tells the story of how physicists realized that nuclear fission could be used to create a nuclear bomb and forever change the history of humanity. MY T-SHIRTS: http://useloos.com.br Be a member of our channel to help keep the videos up! http://youtube.com/cienciatododia/join Discuss this video on our Discord! / discord My social networks: / pedroloos / pedroloos Our podcast: http://anchor.fm/sinapse E-mail: [email protected] Sources and Additional Reading: BOOKS The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes Leo Szilard : Your Version of the Facts: Selected Collections and Correspondence - Leo Szilard, Spencer R. Weart and Gertrud Weiss Szilard The Collected Works of Leo Szilard - Scientific Articles, Leo Szilard What Little I Remember (1979) - Otto Robert Frisch The Atomic Age: Graetzer and Anderson (1971) New Atoms: Progress and Some Memories, Otto Hahn Exploring the History of Nuclear Physics - Weiner (1972) Lewis Strauss - Men and Decisions History of the Met Lab Section CI, Seaborg 1977 Now it can be said: the story of the Project Manhattan - Leslie R. Groves Trinity, by KT Brainbridge. ARTICLES Chadwick Nature Letter (1932a) and Chadwick Proc Roy. Soc paper: Chadwick (1932b) Neutron capture and Nuclear Constitution - Bohr (1936) Scientific work by Enrico Fermi - Luisa Bonolis DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-01160-7_17 Possible Production of Elements with Atomic Numbers Higher than 92 - E. Fermi Chemical Evidence of the Transmutation of Elements - Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1935, Frederic Joliot DOCUMENTS Sachs Summation: Sacks (1945), Sachs Intentionally: US Senate (1945) Hewlett Richarg G, Anderson, Oscar E. (1962 ) The New World (1939-1946) UNION COMMITTEE: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhatta... Bush-Conant Archive Related to the Development of the Atomic Bomb (1940-1945) Voices of the Manhattan Project: https ://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/