The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy by Jim Bell

Author:Jim Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf

As exciting as these discoveries were scientifically, Weizsäcker, Bethe, and their colleagues knew that the nuclear genie was out of the bottle. Some nuclear synthesis chain reactions based on the same physics as reactions inside the stars could also be created artificially, releasing enormous amounts of energy. As World War II broke out, both the American and German governments set their physicists at work on the weaponization of nuclear fusion. The US effort was dubbed the Manhattan Project and involved Bethe as a leading theorist; it led to the development and detonation of the atomic bombs that ended the war, as well as the hydrogen bombs that began the long Cold War that followed.

SEE ALSO Radioactivity (1896), Eddington’s Mass-Luminosity Relation (1924), Neutrino Astronomy (1956).

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