How The U.S. Spent $2 Billion on One Bomb — and Ended a World War

Описание: In 1945, the United States spent $2 billion — the modern equivalent of $30 billion — to build one weapon. It wasn’t revenge. It wasn’t rage. It was fear — fear that Nazi Germany might unlock the atom first.
That weapon would end the deadliest war in human history… and begin a new one.
This is the full story of the Manhattan Project — the hidden empire of 130,000 workers, 30 secret sites, and 500,000 miles of wiring that created Little Boy and Fat Man.
From Trinity’s blinding light in the New Mexico desert to the firestorms of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this episode follows the two-billion-dollar chain reaction that turned science into annihilation — and power into a question that still haunts us.
The math of destruction had never been this exact.
– $2 billion spent
– 43 seconds to detonate
– 200,000 dead
– 1 world changed forever
The atomic bomb ended tyranny — but also ended certainty.
Because once humanity split the atom, it also split itself.
SOURCES & REFERENCES:
– U.S. War Department: Manhattan Engineer District Report (1946)
– J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers, Library of Congress
– Leslie Groves, Now It Can Be Told (1962)
– Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)
– U.S. National Archives: Trinity and Hiroshima Mission Records
– Harry S. Truman Presidential Library – Potsdam and Atomic Decision Papers
– U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (1946)
– National WWII Museum – Race for the Bomb Collection
– Atomic Heritage Foundation – Voices of the Manhattan Project
Disclaimer: This video is a dramatized historical narrative created for educational and entertainment purposes.
All stories are inspired by documented events from World War II.
The content does not promote any political ideology, hatred, or violence.
Its goal is to highlight humanity, irony, and the lessons of history.