Fat Man and Little Boy
Fat Man and Little Boy  
Podcast: Key Battles of American History
Published On: Wed Jul 13 2022
Description: In 1942, the United States government launched the Manhattan Project, a top-secret effort to build an atomic bomb for use against the Axis powers. In this episode, James and Sean discuss the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy, a fictionalized version of the attempt to build the bombs that focuses on the relationship between the project’s director General Leslie Groves and its lead scientist Robert Oppenheimer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.