Secrets of the Bomb:

Manhattan Project to Tehran

• Hagley Museum and Library
• Jennet Conant
• AP
• NARA
• AP
• NARA
• LANLA
• AP
• Wilcox
• Ed Wescott
• Ed Wescott
• Gladys Owens
• Ed Wescott
• AP
• FNC
• FNC

• James Conant, renowned chemist and then-president of Harvard, with close friend Vannevar Bush and Leslie Groves ... In 1941, Conant and Bush became scientific advisors to FDR
• James Conant with Winston Churchill
• Massachusetts native Vannevar Bush, one of President Roosevelt's scientific advisors, is known as "the patron saint of American science"
• In September 1942, Leslie Groves had just finished building the Pentagon when he was hand-picked to lead what is now called "The Manhattan Project" for his headquarters in New York City
• Leslie Groves and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who, in 1942, was picked to physically build the bomb
• Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
• In 1942, Leslie Groves purchased a boys' boarding house in Los Alamos, New Mexico ... hand-picked by
  Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the outpost would eventually house the scientists recruited to design and build the atomic bomb
• Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who began design of the world's first (human built) nuclear reactor after receiving federal funding for his research at Columbia ... his successful experiment in 1942 convinced
  Leslie Groves that plutonium could also be used for an atomic bomb
• Manhattan Project Veteran Bill Wilcox, the former plant technical director of Y-12
• The Y-12 plant, the first plant built and still operating today
• A Y-12 plant site guard
• "Calutron girls" ... Only two out of every 3,000 women who applied were chosen to operate the calutrons,
  or electromagnetic machines that separated uranium isotopes
• Women workers leaving the Y-12 plant
• Enola Gay crew ... On August 6, 1954 the B-29 carried the uranium bomb to Hiroshima, which helped end World War II
• Lt. Col. Oliver North and Producer Ayse Wieting in front of bomb
• Lt. Col. Oliver North at the wraps location with the camera crew at the National Museum of the U.S. Airforce in Dayton, Ohio