✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Reflections on “Making the Atomic Bomb” – Windows On Theory

windowsontheory.org · 2,472 words · saved by 1 readers

[Cross posted on lesswrong; see here for my prior writings ; update: 8/25/23: added a paragraph on secrecy] [it appears almost certain that in the immediate future, it would be] pos…

[Cross posted on lesswrong ; see here for my prior writings ; update: 8/25/23: added a paragraph on secrecy] [it appears almost certain that in the immediate future, it would be] possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Letter from Albert Einstein (prepared by Leo Szilard) to F.D. Roosevelt, August 1939 Do you know, Josef Vassarionovich, what main argument has been advanced against uranium? “It would be too good if the problem could be solved. Nature seldom proves f

Explore this link on the map →

related reading