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Manhattan project the u.s. led the race to the bomb. in august 1945 president harry truman choose to unleash it. the atomic bomb laid waste to hiroshima and nagasaki forcing a japanese surrender. world war ii was over. but only four years later on july 16th, 1949, the soviets shocked the world. >> an atomic explosion occurred in the sow yet union. >> for the next 40 years the united states and soviet union faced off. ordinary americans lived with the threat of mutual destruction. >> the cuban missile crisis in 1962 rocked the world closer than ever to nuclear an nileations. >> one path we shal...

>> we go on these relief operations all over the world and i have to say i have never seen it like this before. even is polite. we just had dinner in the relief center, they are sharing what little food they have, to be honest it is quite amazing. anywhere else you would have riots and people taking things out of stores and none of that is happening. it is... bill: is it your sense that it will hold or at some point will it give out. >> i think today when people found out there was not even gas, you know, for the government, they started -- there's a real sense of panic beginning to take over,...

Letting the world know that somebody else other than the united states had nuclear capability. it was a written statement that he put out. "we have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the ussr." that statement was issued on september 23rd, 1949. and as you might imagine, everybody freaked out. >> president truman's dramatic announcement that russia has created an atomic explosion has reporters heading where they will address the united nations. >> does russia have the atomic bomb? >> the russian foreign minister maintains his silence. >> does russia have the atomi...

Interesting, they didn't make any sort of announcement about it. i think they knew they probably wouldn't have to. the united states picked up signs of the radiation that was released by that test five days after the explosion. there was a u.s. surveillance plane flying near siberia and five days after the soviets first successful atomic test, that plane picked up these unexpected signs of radiation and so the u.s. collected what data we could, u.s. scientists set out to confirm the suspected tests and then finally almost three weeks after that surveillance plane first sniffed that radiation i...

Attacked pearl harbor. naeshg joined the war and the nuclear arms race. the soviet union the u.s. and britain competed to snatch up hitler's nuclear scientists and secrets. with the success of the project they led the race to the bobb. harry truman choose to unleash it. atomic bombs laid waste to japanese cities of hiroshima forcing a japanese surrender. world war ii was over. but only four years later o july 16th, 19499 soviets shocked the world. >> an atomic explosion occurred in the soviet union. >> for the next 40 years the united states and soviet union faced off. ordinary americans live ...