Butterfly Effect
Einstein and the Manhattan Project
Season 1 Episode 10
December 4, 2016 25m TV-PG
A famous scientist wrote to the President of the United States, and the face of war, and our world, was changed forever. How and why did humanity develop a weapon capable of almost total destruction?
• April 1939, at the dawn of the Second World War, Nazi Germany launches the secret Uranium Project.
• August 2 1939, Albert Einstein, renowned physicist, signs a letter to the President of the United States.
• August 6 1945, an American B29 bomber drops an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
These three, intimately connected events, are the key moments of the Manhattan Project and will lead to the end of the Second World War.
• April 1939, at the dawn of the Second World War, Nazi Germany launches the secret Uranium Project.
• August 2 1939, Albert Einstein, renowned physicist, signs a letter to the President of the United States.
• August 6 1945, an American B29 bomber drops an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
These three, intimately connected events, are the key moments of the Manhattan Project and will lead to the end of the Second World War.
Cast of Butterfly Effect
Helen Budayactor
Eddie Crewactor
Karine Pinoteauactor
Michel Royactor
Tercelin Kirtleyactor
Frederic PerchetColonel