Timeline for Did any famous physicists think nuclear weapons were impossible?
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| Nov 14, 2022 at 12:53 | comment | added | Mauricio | As with other SE, you are not supposed to add "update" labels, just edit your answer, if somebody want to check a previous version of your post, they can check the edit history. | |
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| Nov 18, 2017 at 1:32 | comment | added | user466 | There is a supposed quote by Rutherford, "The energy produced by breaking down the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformations of these atoms is taking moonshine." But this may be apocryphal, and probably doesn't refer specifically to nuclear weapons. See en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Ernest_Rutherford . | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 10:23 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 8:57 | history | edited | Dims | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 15:41 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | I don't recall now - I read it years ago - you might be able to find it somewhere on the net. | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 15:29 | comment | added | José Carlos Santos | @MoziburUllah What's your source? | |
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 5:15 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | Earlier than Bill Gates, Von Neumann thought the world was most likely to need at most three or four computers. | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 5:14 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | Interesting question - its more than likely there was a debate about it at the time which has been largely forgotten as I haven't come across it. | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 19:13 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | First of all scientists don't "believe." That's what religions do. Scientists try to disprove theories. They fail when the outcome matches the theory. Second, physicists quickly understood what a nuclear chain reaction could do. Ability to generate pure enough materials, proper containment pressures waves, etc. are engineering problems and completely different animals. | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 19:10 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Your Bill Gates story is on a completely different topic: engineering needs, not physical possibilities. | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 10:25 | history | edited | Dims | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 31, 2017 at 7:11 | answer | added | José Carlos Santos | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 7:03 | comment | added | Dims | @JoséCarlosSantos okay, what about nuke? | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 6:59 | comment | added | José Carlos Santos | Bill Gates never said that. | |
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| Oct 31, 2017 at 6:47 | history | asked | Dims | CC BY-SA 3.0 |