This Week in Illinois History: World’s first man-made nuclear reaction (December 2, 1942)

from This Week in Illinois History · host Clint Cargile

At the height of World War II, scientists in the U. S. raced to build a nuclear weapon before Germany. One of the first stages of this race, the harnessing of nuclear energy, took place beneath the grandstand of a football field in Chicago.

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