The most dangerous science experiment in human history, told by the people who lived it.
Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestBy 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.
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.
Writing
First-hand accounts that hit harder than any dramatization could.
Production
Declassified footage woven with intimate survivor testimony.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Los Alamos was so secret that babies born there had birth certificates listing only 'P.O. Box 1663, Santa Fe, New Mexico.'
This 2015 doc dropped the same year the Trinity site opened to public visitors for the first time in decades—timing that reframed nuclear tourism as memorial, not spectacle.
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