Nuclear Energy: A Gift Gone Wrong By: Abhijay Bhosale Nuclear energy was first discovered in the 1930s by a man named Enrico Fermi after he proved that neutrons could split atoms. He created the first nuclear chain in 1942 under a stadium at the University of Chicago, also making the first nuclear reactor. Just 3 years later on June 16, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer would go on to say the earth-shattering quote of "I am become death, destroyer of worlds," after leading at witnessing the first explosion of the nuclear bomb. How did we manage to take one of the best energy resources, and turn it into a reincarnation of the underworld itself? WHY EVEN TRY TO MAKE A BOMB? Many people credit the US's Manhattan project to be the first attempt to make a nuclear bomb, but before this, we need to go back to the people the bomb was originally intended for: the Nazis. There were 2 German scientists by the names of Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, who also contributed to study of nucle...
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