BUILDING THE A-BOMB Corbis Corp., the Bill Gates company that recently acquired the Bettmann Archive of historic photos and drawings, shows off its flair for history in Critical Mass: America's Race to Build the Atomic Bomb. The $50 Windows CD-ROM (a Mac version is due in March) illustrates the work of the Manhattan Project with a wealth of photographs from the archives of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Video is sparingly but effectively used, including a ghastly animation in which Bert the Turtle teaches 1950s Americans how to duck and cover.

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