
Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2
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The Chain of Events
In 1938, two German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discover fission when experimenting with firing neutrons at uranium. This encounter would eventually spark a close working relationship between Piles and Fuchs. At this point in 1934, there's no conception of an atomic bomb. Only seven atoms in every thousand in naturally occurring uranium is of the seriously explosive sort.
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