“The results of the calculations shocked us both”: as scientists realized that they could create an atomic bomb
A fragment of a book about the history of the most destructive weapon in the history of mankind For the first time, the bestseller Richard Ruds “Creating an atomic bomb”, who brought the author of the Pulitzer Prize, comes out in Russian. Gorky publishes a fragment of how the physicist Otto Frish first proved the impossibility of producing a new generation weapon, and then he himself refuted his evidence. Richard Roads. Creating an atomic bomb. M.: Hummingbird, ABC-Atticus, 2020.