The Nazi Atomic Bomb Nearly Happened. A Mathematical Error Stopped It.
How close was Hitler to Nazi Atomic Bomb? Eight months after Hitler invaded Poland, Germany was ahead of the United States in the race to build the atomic bomb. Then one physicist made a calculation that changed the war. In December 1938, in a laboratory on the outskirts of Berlin, a chemist named Otto Hahn […]
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