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Summer 1942 in Chicago
Vol. 24-4
December 1982
On 2 December 1942 the first man-made nuclear reactor went critical. The nuclear age was born. In his recently completed "political history of nuclear energy" M. Goldschmidt traces the whole story of the nuclear age from the discovery of fission to the present day.
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