The science behind the atomic bomb
The science behind the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII. Targeted at students aged 11-17, this educational documentary integrates all 3 sciences and includes: scientific principles behind the atom bomb (radioactive decay, alpha, beta, and gamma radiation, nuclear fission etc.), how the bomb was built (how uranium-235 was purified from pitchblende ore, the mechanisms of the bombs e.g. implosion method in Fat Man etc.), how the bomb caused its damage (shockwave, somatic and genetic effec
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Mar 22, 2008