Uranium: Twisting the Dragons Tail

Uranium is a unique element, used in research, medicine, space travel, and of course weapons. Not broadcast in your country Contact your local broadcaster and, or email Documentary Dates: US: PBS, July 28 29 10pm ET, 9pm Central France Germany: ZDF, arte July 31 10pm Australia: SBS, August 6, 13, 20 8:30pm EST If you re wondering where the title comes A number of ingenious experiments were devised to test the speed of the fission reaction, and the limit was pushed. But even so, I thought it would be very nice to go one step nearer to a real atomic explosion. Dick Feynman, who was present, started to chuckle and to say that this is just like tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon. Professor Otto R Frisch, January 1969 Physicist, the Manhattan Project.