Remembering the Chicago Pile, the World’s First Nuclear Reactor

Alex Wellerstein explores the history of the Chicago Pile-1 reactor, which on December 2, 1942, created the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, paving the way for the Trinity nuclear test and the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

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