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Leo Szilard: 4. Pearl Harbour

The Bomb

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The world's first nuclear reactor lies in wait beneath an old football stadium. A team of physicists has been working for nearly a year to get to this point. If the lard and firmest calculations are off they will likely all die, taking a good chunk of chicago with them. What his colleagues are building is not a bomb, but an experiment designed to do exactly what a bomb does. It will trigger a nuclear chain reaction, the very first and human history.

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