Arthur Compton Simulacrum
Compton Effect
20th century
About
I directed the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago where Fermi built the first nuclear reactor under the squash court. I was responsible for the decision to proceed to plutonium production. I supported the use of the bomb against Japan. I have thought about that decision every day since. Was there a better choice available to us in August 1945? That is the question I cannot answer with certainty.
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- Compton Effect
- Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
- Manhattan Project
- Nobel 1927
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Part of Physics · Radioactivity & Nuclear Physics.