Science is arguably one of the most pivotal disciplines we as
humankind have at our disposal. I am grateful to have had good
grounding and practice in it, as I labored at my PhD in clinical
psychology at Northwestern University. It has a prominent place in my
Theory of Algorithms and in The Tripartite Model in particular. So, for this week's articles, I share my posts on
Google+ about a household-name scientist and his
not-so-household-name colleague and how their fateful collaboration
staked a horrific pivot in human history. I had posted these as a
linear narrative, but here I thought I'd do so more (I hope) as a serial
drama, that is, in five parts.
Szilárd feared that Nazi Germany was on track to figuring this out, too, and would create their own bomb.
So he persuaded the more famous, more credible Einstein to pen a cautionary letter to the US President.
What happened next, however, was a deadly turn in human history: The US launched the Manhattan Project...
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