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Basic Info

First Air: July 27, 2015

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Day 980 to 1,000: The Emergency

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2015-07-27

Runtime: 48 min

By the time the first device was tested on July 16, 1945, President Harry Truman was in the White House. The efforts of those who worked in Los Alamos could not be said to have won the war – by the time the first bomb levelled Hiroshima on August 6, Germany had already surrendered and Japan was near to collapse – but they certainly shortened the conflict and saved thousands of American lives.

1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos

2015 1 seasons 3 episodes

Overview

The triumphs and failures of the men and women who created the world's first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. This the story of the men and women who worked on a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during the Second World War with First-hand accounts from the men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during the Second World War.