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The Bastard Brigade - The Accidental A-Bomb | 1

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The Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm

You're a young physicist doing graduate work in Europe. You've been so buried in research and you've barely had time to read for pleasure go out or even over in the newspaper. But tonight you've got a special treat you've secured an invitation to the biggest event in science The Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. A Jewish fellow from your lab named Isaac is sitting next to you. He says scientists building up or shattering elements will be able to bring about transmutations of an explosive time. They called these explosions chain reactions and claims they'll be every bit as powerful as the reactions that power stars.

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