The Untold History of the United States [Season 1, Episode 1]

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The Untold History of the United States
Year: 
2012 – ...
Country: 
USA
Genres: 
War, Documentary, History

Nearby in the darkness, something hangs atop a steel tower... a bomb. Today they will test it. The test is code-named Trinity. The inspiration... John Donne, Robert Oppenheimer's favorite poet. One of the premier scientists of his age, Oppenheimer loved literature and the desert of the Southwest. He was a peaceful man, who just happened to have created and coordinated the most destructive weapon in all history. <...> At 5:29 and 45 seconds, the bomb detonates. The light is brighter than the sun. Observing the explosion, Oppenheimer recalls a line from the hindu scripture, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." This terrifying weapon would launch the United States on a journey, turning the refuge of the founding fathers into a militarized state.

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Nearby in the darkness, something hangs atop a steel tower... a bomb. Today they will test it. The test is code-named Trinity. The inspiration... John Donne, Robert Oppenheimer's favorite poet. One of the premier scientists of his age, Oppenheimer loved literature and the desert of the Southwest. He was a peaceful man, who just happened to have created and coordinated the most destructive weapon in all history. <...> At 5:29 and 45 seconds, the bomb detonates. The light is brighter than the sun. Observing the explosion, Oppenheimer recalls a line from the hindu scripture, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." This terrifying weapon would launch the United States on a journey, turning the refuge of the founding fathers into a militarized state.
Nearby in the darkness, something hangs atop a steel tower... a bomb. Today they will test it. The test is code-named Trinity. The inspiration... John Donne, Robert Oppenheimer's favorite poet. One of the premier scientists of his age, Oppenheimer loved literature and the desert of the Southwest. He was a peaceful man, who just happened to have created and coordinated the most destructive weapon in all history. <...> At 5:29 and 45 seconds, the bomb detonates. The light is brighter than the sun. Observing the explosion, Oppenheimer recalls a line from the hindu scripture, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." This terrifying weapon would launch the United States on a journey, turning the refuge of the founding fathers into a militarized state.
Nearby in the darkness, something hangs atop a steel tower... a bomb. Today they will test it. The test is code-named Trinity. The inspiration... John Donne, Robert Oppenheimer's favorite poet. One of the premier scientists of his age, Oppenheimer loved literature and the desert of the Southwest. He was a peaceful man, who just happened to have created and coordinated the most destructive weapon in all history. <...> At 5:29 and 45 seconds, the bomb detonates. The light is brighter than the sun. Observing the explosion, Oppenheimer recalls a line from the hindu scripture, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." This terrifying weapon would launch the United States on a journey, turning the refuge of the founding fathers into a militarized state.
Nearby in the darkness, something hangs atop a steel tower... a bomb. Today they will test it. The test is code-named Trinity. The inspiration... John Donne, Robert Oppenheimer's favorite poet. One of the premier scientists of his age, Oppenheimer loved literature and the desert of the Southwest. He was a peaceful man, who just happened to have created and coordinated the most destructive weapon in all history. <...> At 5:29 and 45 seconds, the bomb detonates. The light is brighter than the sun. Observing the explosion, Oppenheimer recalls a line from the hindu scripture, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." This terrifying weapon would launch the United States on a journey, turning the refuge of the founding fathers into a militarized state.
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The feeble international response to the Spanish civil war was even more disheartening. Fighting erupted in July, 1936, when general Francisco Franco's forces set out to topple the elected Spanish Republic and establish a fascist regime. <...> Hitler and Mussolini, who sent abundant aid and thousands of troops. Hitler supplied his feared condor legion, whose bombing of guernica was depicted by Pablo Picasso in his famous mural.

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The feeble international response to the Spanish civil war was even more disheartening. Fighting erupted in July, 1936, when general Francisco Franco's forces set out to topple the elected Spanish Republic and establish a fascist regime. <...> Hitler and Mussolini, who sent abundant aid and thousands of troops. Hitler supplied his feared condor legion, whose bombing of guernica was depicted by Pablo Picasso in his famous mural.
The feeble international response to the Spanish civil war was even more disheartening. Fighting erupted in July, 1936, when general Francisco Franco's forces set out to topple the elected Spanish Republic and establish a fascist regime. <...> Hitler and Mussolini, who sent abundant aid and thousands of troops. Hitler supplied his feared condor legion, whose bombing of guernica was depicted by Pablo Picasso in his famous mural.
The feeble international response to the Spanish civil war was even more disheartening. Fighting erupted in July, 1936, when general Francisco Franco's forces set out to topple the elected Spanish Republic and establish a fascist regime. <...> Hitler and Mussolini, who sent abundant aid and thousands of troops. Hitler supplied his feared condor legion, whose bombing of guernica was depicted by Pablo Picasso in his famous mural.
The feeble international response to the Spanish civil war was even more disheartening. Fighting erupted in July, 1936, when general Francisco Franco's forces set out to topple the elected Spanish Republic and establish a fascist regime. <...> Hitler and Mussolini, who sent abundant aid and thousands of troops. Hitler supplied his feared condor legion, whose bombing of guernica was depicted by Pablo Picasso in his famous mural.
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In another great blow to the allied cause, Japan stunned the British Empire at Singapore in early 1942. The British had more troops defending Singapore than England itself. 80,000 commonwealth soldiers, many of them Australian, were taken prisoner. But in a sign of the true feelings of colonized peoples, of the 55,000 British Indian troops taken prisoner by the Japanese, 40,000 changed sides to fight for the Japanese.

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In another great blow to the allied cause, Japan stunned the British Empire at Singapore in early 1942. The British had more troops defending Singapore than England itself. 80,000 commonwealth soldiers, many of them Australian, were taken prisoner. But in a sign of the true feelings of colonized peoples, of the 55,000 British Indian troops taken prisoner by the Japanese, 40,000 changed sides to fight for the Japanese.
In another great blow to the allied cause, Japan stunned the British Empire at Singapore in early 1942. The British had more troops defending Singapore than England itself. 80,000 commonwealth soldiers, many of them Australian, were taken prisoner. But in a sign of the true feelings of colonized peoples, of the 55,000 British Indian troops taken prisoner by the Japanese, 40,000 changed sides to fight for the Japanese.
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