West Routt Library District

In December of 1938, almost by accident, German chemist Otto Hahn experimented with uranium and found that its atoms split when put next to radioactive material. When word got out, physicists and chemists across the United States, Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union raced to find a way to make a bomb by splitting the atom.

Discusses the personalities and events involved in the research, development and detonation of the atomic bombs built by the United States in the 1940s.

Examines the bombings and the era in which all of humanity lived under the long, dark shadow.