Compton: The Italian navigator has landed in the New World.
Conant: How were the natives?
Compton: Everyone landed safe and happy.
The Atomic Age began on this date in 1942 when Enrico Fermi and his colleagues demonstrated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers under the stands at the University of Chicago football stadium.
Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist relies on an invention that in the world you’ve created has equal capacity for evil and for good.
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