The Bastard Brigade - The Most Wanted Men | 5
As the Nazis inched closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon, panic grew among the Allied forces. The Alsos Mission — otherwise known as the Bastard Brigade — was put in charge of gathering intelligence o...
14 Elo 201939min
The Bastard Brigade - The Strangest Man | 4
By mid-1944, the Allies’ fight to track down and stop the Nazi atomic program had met with failure and disappointment. And so the Manhattan Project took a new tack by recruiting and developing atomic ...
7 Elo 201939min
The Bastard Brigade - The Kennedy Curse | 3
In early 1944, the Allies developed a desperate plan to destroy several massive bunkers in Nazi-controlled France—bunkers that reportedly housed atomic missiles. The plan called for filling up airplan...
31 Heinä 201934min
The Bastard Brigade - The Juice | 2
The discovery of uranium fission in Nazi Germany in 1938 terrified Allied nuclear scientists—especially since the Nazi atomic bomb project, the dreaded Uranium Club, had a two-year head start on the M...
24 Heinä 201939min
The Bastard Brigade - The Accidental A-Bomb | 1
The Second World War ended with two black mushroom clouds rising over the scorched remains of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But most people don’t realize how easily the war could have ended not with an Amer...
17 Heinä 201936min
The Statue of Liberty | 6
The Statue of Liberty is one of America’s most iconic monuments to freedom. As we head into the Fourth of July holiday, we’ll look back on the amazing effort it took to get Lady Liberty built.Beckett ...
3 Heinä 201941min
Tulsa Race Massacre - Legacy and Lessons | 5
Nearly a century after a white mob leveled the affluent Tulsa district known as Black Wall Street, how is Greenwood faring? Mechelle Brown is the program coordinator for the Greenwood Cultural Center,...
26 Kesä 201934min
Tulsa Race Massacre - Rebirth | 4
On June 2, 1921, thousands of black Tulsans interned at the Tulsa Fairgrounds woke under armed guard. Many had no idea where their loved ones were or if they were still alive; they didn’t know whether...
19 Kesä 201948min
