#atomic_bomb

When I was a kid and people referred to the atomic bomb, I thought people were referring to the atomic bomb; like there was only one of them. And that countries passed it around on like a yearly basis or something.

Fuchs was a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, fleeing to England in 1933, where he completed his doctorate in physics. At the outbreak of World War II, Fuchs, still a German citizen, was interned as an enemy alien but soon released through the intervention of Max Born, a professor at Edinburgh University and another German refugee.