Uranium is a unique element, used in research, medicine, space travel, and of course weapons.

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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 from...

“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.