Anyone with a reasonable physics degree and access to a good technical library could design a workable atomic bomb in less than six months but in the 1940's, designing and making an atomic bomb was a race against time. ... When the news got back to President Truman, he said, "This is the greatest day in history!" ... I can agree with President Truman when he called it the greatest day in history because of the fact that we do not accept defeat and we had to show everyone what the United States were made of. ... "The History of the Atomic Bomb" 2003: March 23rd 2003 Church, George J. .....

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Nuclear Weapons History. ... The fields of nuclear engineering, nuclear physics and computational physics have graduated many scientists and engineers that are quite capable of figuring out how to design a nuclear weapon that would work. ...

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"A choir sang and the world watched as an engineer in a white lab coat switched off the last reactor at the Chernobyl power plant Friday, more than 14 years after it spewed a radioactive cloud across Europe, killing thousands in history's worst nuclear accident."" ... Only a man with no understanding of the process of neuron physics inside a nuclear reactor would switch off the emergency core cooling system, or ECCS. ...

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