splitting the atom

Researchers there were the first to generate electricity from splitting the atom back in 1951, and countless scientists have since visited the remote site to test reactor designs.

Almost no one linked that possibility to the massive scientific breakthrough of splitting the atom.

But apart from identifying who actually understood the science, it was the implications of splitting the atom in 1939 that was about to truly test their relationship.

People have been analogizing A.I. advances to splitting the atom for years.

Spencer Weart, a historian of physics and the author of “The Rise of Nuclear Fear,” says that splitting the atom has been associated with monstrosity, pollution and danger since even before the development of the atomic bomb.