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The Manhattan Project: Oppenheimer, Trinity & Hiroshima | Sleepy History with Rain Sounds
Six and a half years from a laboratory bench in Berlin to a clear morning over Hiroshima — told slowly over rain sounds to help you fall asleep.
In 1938, two chemists in Berlin split a uranium atom and didn’t believe their own result. Within seven years, the United States had built three secret cities that appeared on no map, employed a hundred and thirty thousand people who almost none of them knew what they were making, and spent two billion dollars with no public debate about what it was for.
Tonight: the discovery nobody wanted, and the letter Einstein called the one great mistake of his…
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