Posted: 11th November 2020
My grandad worked on the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. Could another man – Leo Szilard – have stopped it?
7 The doomsday clock
The bomb drops on Hiroshima and the world is changed forever
6 The first atomic bomb
Time is running out. Leo Szilard makes one final attempt to stop the bomb
5 Enemy alien
The FBI pursues Leo Szilard as he loses control of the project
4 Pearl Harbour
An attack on Pearl Harbour changes everything
3 The Einstein letter
A vital message must be delivered to the president of the United States
2 Race to the bomb
It’s a race against time to beat the Nazis to the nuclear bomb
1 Moonshine
A little-known scientist discovers something that will change the course of human history
The prologue
“My grandfather in front of a mushroom cloud”. Could the Bomb have been stopped? #thebomb
