From Fission to Fear Nuclear History

Описание: History of Nuclear Weapons
Origins and World War II (1930s–1945)
The discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 by German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann (with explanation by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch) laid the groundwork for nuclear weapons. Fission is the process of splitting an atomic nucleus, releasing a massive amount of energy.