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The Bomb

May 21, 2013 By Wyn Wachhorst Leave a Comment

Leo Szilard had a dream.  As a boy in Budapest, reading H.G. Wells’ novel about a nuclear war that destroys most of Europe’s cities, he concluded that the world should be governed by a group of gifted scientists.  He envisioned the development of atomic energy as both a limitless power source and a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, invention and discovery, nuclear weapons, politics, postwar America, science and wonder Tagged With: bomb, decision to drop the bomb, Einstein, Hiroshima, Manhattna Project, Nagasaki, nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer, Szilard, World War II

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