Status Updates From The Making Of The Atomic Bomb

In the 1920’s horses were disappearing from cities. At the same time Niel Bohrs predicted the chemistry of Hafnium before it was discovered and named by its atomic number and location on the periodic table of elements. An effective model supported by observation and taught to every chemistry student today. I don’t begin to understand how he realized it from spectroscopy and mathematics. Like Newton’s Calculus.

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.