Lethal Dose

Episode 47: The Manhattan Project Pt. 1 Dawn of the Atomic Age


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This story goes beyond the work of Oppenheimer, Groves, and all the other Nobel laureate scientists and uncovers the injuries inflicted upon Americans across the country and hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in the 1940s. And it's only the beginning.

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