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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the timing, with WWII started, is interesting, far more than the content. This is why I was surprised.
The article is not strictly wrong though I am not sure what their published source was —
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Halban, Joliot, Kowarski, and Perrin, Journal de Physique et le Radium, October 1939. It excited Szilard to retry with graphite
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French pub more accurately reported NY Times February 1, 1940, Science News Letter February 10, Time magazine February 12.
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