Man, Moment, Machine — Season 1, Episode 10: Ultimate Weapon: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb.

Episode synopsis

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the A-bomb, creates the world's deadliest weapon of mass destruction--with the "power of 1,000 suns" it can annihilate tens of thousands in a moment. His scientific brilliance is the power behind the atom bombs used against the Japanese during WWII, but his conscience led him to question the invention that helped end the war. Watch as Oppenheimer paces anxiously in New Mexico while the crew on a B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, deploys the massive "Little Boy" bomb towards the Aioi Bridge in Hiroshima. The resulting massive loss of life leads Oppenheimer to rethink the way in which nuclear energy was to be used.

About Man, Moment, Machine

Man, Moment, Machine was a television series which aired on The History Channel and was hosted by Hunter Ellis. It documented an important event in history and went into detail about, as the title suggests, the man and his background, the machine and how it was made, and the outcome.

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• E2The Great Sub Rescue
• E3Doolittle's Daring Raid
• E4Stormin' Norman and the Abrams Tank
• E5Shot Down: The U-2 Spyplane
• E6Mine Rescue Mask
• E7Wernher von Braun and the V2 Rocket
• E8Thomas Edison and the Electric Chair
• E9Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose
• E11The Higgins Landing Craft
• E12Dambuster: WWII's Bouncing Bomb
• E1325,000 Miles Non-Stop: Voyager Spacecraft