On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Molly and Sam discuss how the U.S. came to use atomic power—and how it likely saved many lives.

The United States of America can take pride in a number of things, among them arguably the two greatest cultural and scientific achievements of human history: The moon landing and atomic power. It is the latter that we will focus on in this episode, the unleashing of the power of the atom, for good and for ill.