Was war or was science to be blamed?? (Fermi, p.10), in the past fifty years this question has been asked about a numerous amount of times. The invention of the atomic bomb was one of the most defining moments of the human civilization. It ended the second world war, lead to the creation of the cold war and changed humanity forever. The purpose, creation, decision, detention, and aftermath are all subjects that go into the …showed first 75 words of 603 total…

…showed last 75 words of 603 total…faced great adversity, and they needed a lot of help from different areas of science. The U.S. had to search far and wide for the people they needed, and they also needed to pay Neils Bohr, Sir James Chadwick, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynaman, Klaus Fuchs, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Robert Oppenhiemer, Issac Rabi, Joseph Rotblat, Glenn Seaborg, Leo Szilard, and Edward Teller are the twelve radiant humans who created the world?s first atomic explosive.