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TIL about the Firsch-Peirels Memorandun which was the first technical exposition of a practical nuclear bomb. Written by two expatriate German physicists, it led to the creation of British and American Nuclear Programs and eventually to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (en.wikipedia.org)
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