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450 The Gadget

The History of the Twentieth Century by Mark Painter

Jul 5, 202641:02Society & Culture

By 1944, the United States had developed the facilities to produce U-235 and plutonium in sufficient quantities. The last problem was how to design and build a bomb that would detonate an atomic explosion when you wanted...

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450 The Gadget is an episode from The History of the Twentieth Century by Mark Painter. By 1944, the United States had developed the facilities to produce U-235 and plutonium in sufficient quantities. The last problem was how to design and...

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Published Jul 5, 2026, 41:02 long, audio available.

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