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The Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago

John Mecklin | December 1, 2017

In this WGN-TV production, Bulletin president Rachel Bronson and Science and Security Board chair Robert Rosner discuss the import of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, achieved on Dec. 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago.