Summary
The first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurred on December 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago. Seventy-five years after the dawn of the Atomic Age, scholars illustrate the complex legacy of nuclear energy and the discovery that profoundly changed warfare, science, medicine, energy, and geopolitical relationships.
Details
Duration:
14 minutes, 34 seconds
Recorded:
December 4, 2017
Published: December 14, 2017
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Tags
nuclear, Energy, reaction, Chain Reaction, Nuclear Reactions, Medicine, geopolitics, Nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, Atomic Age, World War II, reactors, International Politics, nonproliferation, nuclear proliferation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Rachel Bronson, Roger Tilbrook, Roger Blomquist, Rocky Kolb, Robert Rosner, Kennette Benedict, Joseph Masco, Eric Isaacs, Maryellen Giger, Suzet McKinney, John Mearsheimer