{"product_id":"critical-mass","title":"Critical Mass","description":"Critical Mass America's Race to Build Atomic Bomb PC CD historical documentary \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eType: \u003c\/label\u003e Application \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePlatform: \u003c\/label\u003e Windows \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/label\u003e Corbis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eReleased: \u003c\/label\u003e 1996 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eMedia: \u003c\/label\u003e CD \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cshortdescription\u003e\u003c\/shortdescription\u003e\"Critical Mass: America's Race to Build the Atomic Bomb\" (Corbis Corporation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe CD-ROM introduces the historical setting with a documentary prelude. The program then sets you free to roam at random. One possible destination is a documentary, The Los Alamos Story, which recounts a rather sketchy chronology of the events leading up to the first nuclear blast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe focus on Los Alamos continues with a self-guided tour of the original atomic development site. Panoramic artist's renderings let you swivel your virtual gaze 360 degrees from various vantage points. Clicking on certain buildings launches short documentaries about their functions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiographies of 13 crucial figures of atomic history are offered in screens of illustrated text. Among those figures, Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi are also given narrated biographies. This material is among the most successful sections of the disk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimelines offer extra information in five categories: atomic events, scientists, popular culture, political history and military technology. The images and sounds are often revealing, including a 1915 \"Treat 'em Rough\" recruitment poster for the Tank Corps, a postwar Kix Atomic Bomb Ring, the Buchanan Brothers' country gospel song \"Atomic Power\" and newsreel footage of the convicted atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA clever \"atomic atlas\" of the world lets you see when countries acquired nuclear weapons and track sites of nuclear detonations, accidents, reactors and uranium mining over time. The accident list is particularly interesting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA section of the program called \"Beyond Trinity\" displays postwar images. There is also an \"archives\" section, whose original documents have been beautifully digitized right down to multiple classification and declassification stamps in various shades of red. Finally, the \"science basics\" section consists of an illustrated glossary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor DOS\/Windows (via DOSBox) [*Please review compatibility\/platform sections in 'What You Get']\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Corbis","offers":[{"title":"Used In Sleeve","offer_id":47882850205974,"sku":"12943","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0083\/0377\/1710\/files\/2019826165014372.jpg?v=1712072447","url":"https:\/\/www.neverdiemedia.com\/products\/critical-mass","provider":"NeverDieMedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}