Women "human computers" working on the Manhattan Project. (Flickr) On this day in 1942, Chicago Pile-1 (or CP-1) initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction under the football grandstands at Chicago University. The very first successful nuclear reactor, CP-1 was built by a team of brains led by Enrico Fermi, an American physicist. While CP-1…
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