LINKTV Democracy Now December 6, 2012
Lets begin. Back in the early part of the century when atom smashers were the vogue, oh, in the early thirties, that sort of thing, 1930s and forties, people used to try atom smashes, used to try to see if they could transmute elements from one kind to another. And one of the reactions that did succeed was kinda novel. Instead of throwing higher and higher velocity particles at matter, three people in germany, lisa meitner, otto hahn, otto strassman, i think, anyway, what they did was they threw slow moving neutrons at uranium isotopes and they found a reaction that changed the world. And the ...