Status Updates From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Bohr has modeled the atom as having discrete, non continuous electrons and glimpsed quantum theory. Harry Mosley is killed fighting near Gallipoli and an American physicist eulogizes his death as enough for WWI to be a world disaster. Fritz Haber and Otto Hahn justify the means with the end and develop poison gas warfare. Gotha bombers and Zeppelins kill civilians bombing England. The shape of things to come.

Ernest Rutherford discovers the essential make up of the atom a few years after radio waves are discovered by Hertz in 1883, and x rays in 1895 by Roentgen. In a 140 years man goes from measuring invisible rays to today.

Leo Szilard, Hungarian scientist, has left Hungary following WWI, like the host of Hungarians who came to be known as the Martians. Brilliant and original. He switches from electrical engineering to physics and studies directly under Physics icons like von Laue, Wigner, and Einstein.