Science and Policy in the Atomic Age

Atomic bomb sculpture at the University of Chicago, erected on the site of the initial fission experiemnt that effectively initiated a nuclear chain reaction.

December 2, 1942

In a squash court underneath the University of Chicago Stadium, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Stanislaw Ulam and others released the weak nuclear force of elemental atomic energy we call fission.

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