Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was once a secret city. Every American nuclear bomb contains uranium from the lab there.
America's nuclear heritage has few sites open to the public. But since the Cold War ended, several sites have fallen out of active use. After narrowly avoiding being torns down, there's a movement to open them to the public as National Parks.
The desert winds blow through the old rusted hangar in Utah where the Enola Gay, the airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, was once housed.
A new film illuminates the celebrated and controversial life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. David Grubin joins us to discuss the lessons 21st century America can learn from the trials and tribulations of this legend.
Scientists are working on a technology that will trap carbon dioxide from the air, treat it electro-chemically and convert it into gasoline.