In the canon
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1986
- Pages
- Pages 890
London, September 1933. Leo Szilard steps off the kerb on Southampton Row as the traffic light turns green, and in that single stride he sees how one neutron might split an atom and free two more, and those two free four, and the chain run away into a power no one has ever held.
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
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