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.
