In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction ... chemists and engineers of the time—including Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner. Hundreds of people were recruited to ...

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Enrico Fermi thought so – and ... Tens of millions of years may sound like a long project, but in fact it’s quite short compared to the age of the Galaxy, which is roughly a thousand times more. So ...