Episode 534: The Manhattan Project Part II - A Numbers Game
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The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
The so-called Chicago pile became the world's first working nuclear reactor on December 2, 1942. The danger here was that once the chain reaction in the pile started, it had a chance of going critical. Leo Sillard: "I have to say this is certainly a most despising meatball day in history"
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