1940 @sciam article about atomic bomb: "Readers made insomnious by 'newspaper talk' of terrific atomic war weapons... may now get sleep."pic.twitter.com/Hd3yFMSiYN
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do you know if this
@sciam article was “fed” by the gov’t to cover the Manhattan Project rumours? -
Too early for that
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fascinating, so why did they write it?
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Nothing like the "worry about something!!!" "only fools are worried about this!!" journalistic cycle! ;-)
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Everyone reading the press in 1939-1940 knew about possibility of atomic bombs from uranium fissionpic.twitter.com/UHfjvOIPhe
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Turns out the scientists interviewed were part of Leo Szilard's conspiracy! They had a sealed paper on chain reactions.
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I knew that major nations holding each other hostage with the threat of global destruction was too fanciful for reality!
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"...we don't have to worry - at least, probably not"
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where all the tests run on natural uranium? Or just plain wrong?
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they are just hiding the fact, I guess. CCCP had some very good physicians, and if they made that bomb earlier…
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