Transcription: The 40s saw the dawning of the nuclear age as scientists perfected the atomic bomb. Research was put in the service of politics and the scientific breakthroughs of Enrico Fermi and others were used to alter the course of history. In 1940, American scientists discovered plutonium, providing the foundation for the production of nuclear weapons. Just five years later, a plutonium bomb would be dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Employing over 10,000 people, the British Secret Service successfully cracked the German secret coding system, the Enigma Machine. Deciphering the Nazis code did no ...
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