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On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." A mere 47 years later, "Little Boy" exploded over Hiroshima. Before the Fallout is the epic story of the intervening half century, during which an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world revealed how to destroy it, and an open, international, scientific adventure transmuted overnight into a wartime...

Documentary drama on the first ever use of a weapon of mass destruction. First-hand accounts by aircrew and survivors recall when the USA dropped an atom bomb.

The columnist remembers his father, who was a soldier in World War II, and tells the story of Paul Tibets, who piloted the Enola Gay.

Contains twenty essays in which various authors examine issues related to the atom bomb, discussing its development, the decision to drop the bomb on Japan, the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and America in the Cold War; with evaluations of the bomb by scientists.

The story of twenty-five young women, scarred survivors of the Hiroshima blast, who became known as the Hiroshima Maidens after they were taken to the United States for plastic surgery.

Discusses the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan by telling the stories of the key Americans and Japanese in the drama.

Part 1 of this BBC docudrama presents the story of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima, featuring historical reenactments and tracking the bomb's progress from its testing in New Mexico, to Tinian Island, to its flight, to the moment the chain reaction occurred. Featuring eyewitness testimony, it tells the story of the crew that dropped the bomb; of bombing survivors who recall events on the ground prior to the explosion, and of decision-makers...