Abstract
I stood watching Enrico Fermi, in a large room beneath Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. It was midafternoon on Wednesday, December 2, 1942. The United States was fighting the Second World War. To win that war, we felt we needed to make an atomic bomb. And to make that bomb, Enrico Fermi was trying to initiate the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
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Atomic Bomb Manhattan Project Enrico Fermi Successful Chain Nuclear Chain Reaction
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© Andrew Szanton 1992