When Physics Faced the Darkest Part of Reality | Inside Science

When Physics Faced the Darkest Part of Reality | Inside Science: (Inside Science) -- As they sped toward the goal of completing the first atomic bomb in the early months of 1945, physicists, chemists and others among the thousands and thousands of individuals who contributed to the Manhattan Project finally accepted a terrible truth: They had helped to create a weapon of mass destruction that, if abused, had the potential of destroying the