{"id":9761303,"date":"2026-08-08T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/race-for-the-atomic-bomb-series\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:56:41","slug":"wettlauf-um-die-atombombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/race-for-the-atomic-bomb-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Das Rennen um die Atombombe: Eine Focus-Serie"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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It begins with a refugee physicist at a London traffic light in 1933 and ends with a weather-reconnaissance B-29 catching radioactive dust over the Pacific in 1949. In between: the flight of Europe&rsquo;s Jewish scientists, a Christmas walk in the Swedish snow, commandos on skis above a Norwegian gorge, a secret city on a New Mexico mesa, the firestorms of Hamburg and Tokyo, a three-billion-dollar bomber, forty-three seconds over Hiroshima, and the spy who handed it all to Stalin.<\/p>\r\n<p>We have told it in ten parts, each a self-contained story, together a single arc. Read them in order, or jump to the chapter that pulls you in. Every part is built on verified sources, real quotes and period photography and film.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-radius:8px;padding:20px 24px;margin:28px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts: The Race for the Bomb, by the Numbers<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>16 years<\/strong> \u2014 from Szilard&rsquo;s traffic-light epiphany (1933) to the Soviet bomb (1949)<\/li><li><strong>$1.9 billion<\/strong> for the Manhattan Project; <strong>$3 billion<\/strong> for the B-29 that carried it<\/li><li><strong>~130,000<\/strong> Manhattan Project workers; <strong>~70<\/strong> scientists in Germany&rsquo;s program<\/li><li><strong>11<\/strong> Nobel-class physicists exiled by the Third Reich<\/li><li><strong>67<\/strong> Japanese cities burned before the atomic bombs fell<\/li><li><strong>21 days<\/strong> \u2014 from the Trinity test to Hiroshima<\/li><li><strong>4 years, 1 month<\/strong> \u2014 the lifespan of the American atomic monopoly<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Series<\/h2>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 1:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/szilard-chain-reaction-physics-revolution\/\">Moonshine: The Idea Born at a Traffic Light<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">R&ouml;ntgen&rsquo;s shimmering screen, the Curies&rsquo; glowing shed, Rutherford&rsquo;s bouncing shell \u2014 and the September morning in 1933 when a Hungarian refugee crossed a London street and saw the chain reaction.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 2:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/hungarian-martians-atomic-bomb-emigres\/\">The Martians Who Fled to America<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">Szilard, Wigner, Teller, von Neumann: how Hitler&rsquo;s war on &ldquo;Jewish physics&rdquo; mailed the finest minds in Europe \u2014 and the bomb itself \u2014 to his enemies.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 3:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/nuclear-fission-discovery-1938\/\">Christmas 1938: The Atom Splits<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">A letter from Berlin, a walk in the Swedish snow, a calculation on scraps of paper \u2014 and the letter, the memorandum and the safe that carried fission from a forest to the White House.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 4:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/german-atomic-bomb-program-heavy-water\/\">Hitler&rsquo;s Bomb Died on a Frozen Plateau<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">The Uranium Club, the poisoned graphite measurement, nine commandos at Vemork, the cave under the church at Haigerloch \u2014 and the hidden microphones of Farm Hall.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 5:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/manhattan-project-trinity-test\/\">Two Billion Dollars, One Desert Sunrise<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">Groves and Oppenheimer, the Chianti under the Chicago stands, the Calutron Girls, the silver-wound magnets \u2014 and the light on the Jornada del Muerto.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 6:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/hamburg-dresden-firestorm-bombing\/\">Firestorm: Hamburg, Dresden, and the Whirlwind<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">The Butt Report&rsquo;s one-in-three, Window over Hamburg, Black Thursday, the Dresden Historians&rsquo; Commission \u2014 how burning cities became a technique.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 7:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/b-29-development-battle-of-kansas\/\">The Bomber That Cost More Than the Bomb<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">Eddie Allen&rsquo;s last flight, the engine that ate itself, the Battle of Kansas fought outdoors at minus 19 degrees \u2014 the $3 billion aircraft of the atomic age.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 8:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/tokyo-firebombing-operation-meetinghouse\/\">History&rsquo;s Deadliest Air Raid Wasn&rsquo;t Nuclear<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">LeMay&rsquo;s gamble, the flaming X over Shitamachi, the night of 9&ndash;10 March 1945, and the 67 cities that burned before the atomic bombs fell.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 9:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/hiroshima-nagasaki-atomic-missions\/\">Forty-Three Seconds Over Hiroshima<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">The 509th, the Hollywood-premiere floodlights on Tinian, Kokura&rsquo;s luck, Bockscar on fumes \u2014 and the broadcast that ended the Second World War.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><strong>Part 10:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/klaus-fuchs-soviet-atomic-spy\/\">The Spy Who Gave Stalin the Bomb<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">Klaus Fuchs, the teenager Moscow never paid, the Jell-O box, Venona, First Lightning \u2014 and the WB-29 that heard the starting gun of the arms race.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Extensions<\/h2>\n<p>Four companion pieces extend the series beyond its ten-part arc:<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wwii-aircraft-production-then-vs-now\/\">When America Built a Bomber Every Hour<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">A bomber every 63 minutes at Willow Run; 7&ndash;8 stealth bombers a year today. What the B-29&rsquo;s four-year sprint says about aircraft production then and now.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/kyoto-spared-atomic-bomb-target-selection\/\">The City at the Top of the List<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">How the atomic targets were chosen: the Target Committee&rsquo;s cold criteria, Stimson&rsquo;s veto, the honeymoon myth \u2014 and why Kyoto was the only city its own death list saved.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/tinian-north-field-largest-airport-wwii\/\">The Island That Became an Aircraft Carrier<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">Tinian: six runways, eleven million cubic yards of coral, a B-29 airborne every 15 seconds \u2014 the largest airport in the world, built in a year.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#fff;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 14px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:17px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/uss-indianapolis-atomic-bomb-sinking\/\">The Ship That Delivered the Bomb<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:0;color:#555;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">USS Indianapolis: the secret cargo, twelve minutes to sink, four days among the sharks \u2014 and the captain who paid for all of it.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Where It All Led<\/h2>\r\n<p>The race did not end in 1949; it merely lost its finish line. The hydrogen bomb followed within three years, the missile age within ten, and the aircraft that fill this magazine \u2014 the interceptors, the reconnaissance jets, the bombers on permanent alert \u2014 were all children of the rivalry this series describes. If the story leaves you wanting the full version, Richard Rhodes&rsquo; The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains, four decades on, the definitive account and one of the great nonfiction books in the English language.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin:24px 0\"><div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nAm_OPVeS4w\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:6px 0 0\">Where the series turns: original 1945 footage of the Trinity test, the moment the theoretical became real.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is the Race for the Atomic Bomb series?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A ten-part Afterburner focus series on the development of the atomic bomb, inspired by Richard Rhodes&rsquo; The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Each part is a self-contained story; together they form a single arc from 1933 to 1949. It is told as an aviation story, because from start to finish that is what it was.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where does the story begin and end?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">It begins with a refugee physicist crossing a London street at a traffic light in 1933 and realising the chain reaction, and ends with a weather-reconnaissance B-29 catching radioactive dust over the Pacific in 1949, which is how the United States learned the Soviet Union had the bomb.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How much did the Manhattan Project cost?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">About $1.9 billion. The B-29 Superfortress programme that carried the bomb cost around $3 billion, meaning the aircraft cost more than the weapon.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many people worked on the Manhattan Project?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Roughly 130,000. By contrast the German programme had around 70 scientists working on it.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How long did the American atomic monopoly last?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Four years and one month, from Hiroshima in August 1945 to the first Soviet test in 1949.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How long was it from the Trinity test to Hiroshima?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Twenty-one days.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why is the atomic bomb story an aviation story?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Because every stage of it depended on aircraft: the flight of Europe&rsquo;s physicists, the commando raid on the Norwegian heavy-water plant, the firebombing campaigns over Hamburg and Tokyo that made burning cities a technique, the three-billion-dollar bomber built to carry the weapon, and the reconnaissance aircraft that detected the Soviet test.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is the Race for the Atomic Bomb series?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"A ten-part Afterburner focus series on the development of the atomic bomb, inspired by Richard Rhodes\u2019 The Making of the Atomic Bomb. 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