"Nuclear fission" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the development and construction of a nuclear weapon, scientists and technicians expanded their knowledge of nuclear fission and developed both the gun-type and the implosion mechanisms to release the energy of a nuclear chain reaction. Their knowledge, however, was only theoretical. They could be certain neither of the extent and effects of such a nuclear chain reaction, nor of the hazards of the resulting blast ...
— Project Trinity 1945-1946 • Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer |
