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In an October press release , Lieutenant General L. The War Department helpfully released a packet of materials for journalists who were not present at the once secretive Chicago Pile experiment.

Two public-information officers interviewed more than a dozen of the 50 scientists, and many of the small but colorful details that would be retold in later commemorations originated in their report.

Details like the bottle of Chianti wine, brought in secretly by the Hungarian-born theoretical physicist Eugene P. When the experiment succeeded, Wigner opened the bottle. And details like the graphite dust that blanketed everyone.

Albert Wattenberg, one of the young physicists that helped build the pile, told his interviewers:. After eight hours of machining graphite, we looked as if we were made up for a minstrel. One shower would remove only the surface graphite dust. About a half-hour after the first shower the dust in the pores of your skin would start oozing.

Walking around the room where we cut graphite was like walking on a dance floor. Graphite is a dry lubricant, you know, and the cement floor covered with graphite dust was slippery. Soon after his arrival in New York City January 2, , Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in While at Columbia from —42, until they moved to Chicago, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.

Other scientists from around Europe also joined the movement away from fascism. Roosevelt of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. The work done at Columbia was later folded into the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb became a reality. The United States had just been engaged in the invasion of North Africa to open up a front that would lead to liberation in Europe.

In the Pacific, the armed forces had been slogging it out on Guadalcanal to stem the flow of the Japanese juggernaut. In Germany, the race to capture the elusive nuclear genie was handicapped by the loss of their critical physicists. Imagine how different the world would look if the forces of evil had reached the goal first. Based on the experiences in the various island conquests of Japanese outposts from to , it was obvious that landing on the homelands would exact a horrible cost on all sides.

The existence of this new power changed all of that. The nuclear club grew quickly from on. Weapons, then reactors for power, then submarines and ships found this new form of power a game changer. The ability of the Nautilus to sail underwater for so long made submarine warfare an entirely new form of art and science.

Combining those submarines with an enhanced missile capability made warfare capabilities leap beyond the imagination of even the most fatalistic fiction writers of the day. One thing is certain… the genie can never be put back into the bottle and it is childish and blindly altruistic to assume that the better nature of man will never produce another Hitler or Stalin. Image: Melvin A. Nuclear fission: at the top, a neutron is about to be captured by the nucleus of a uranium atom U Below, the neutron has been absorbed and briefly turned the nucleus into a highly excited U atom.

Next, the U atom has fissioned, resulting in two short-lived isotopes of barium and krypton Ba and Kr , plus three neutrons, all with very large amounts of kinetic energy. Enrico Fermi after arriving in the US, photo taken in the s during his time with the Manhattan Project. Fermi had received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of only Laura and Enrico Fermi in , the year he died of stomach cancer. On December 2, , a new federal agency opens its doors. Created in response to the dawning realization that human activity can have major effects on the planet, the Environmental Protection Agency heralded a new age of government action on behalf of the environment.

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