The Voice of the Martians

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"The galaxy of scientific minds which worked on the liberation of nuclear power, were really visitors from Mars. They found It difficult to speak English without an alien accent, which would give them away, and therefore they chose to pretend to be Hungarians whose inability to speak any language but Hungarian without a foreign accent is well known. It would be hard to check the above statement, because Hungary is so far." - (Fritz Houtermans, who recognized first the nuclear origin of stellar power.)
The world remembered recently the fiftieth anniversary of the first man-made nuclear chain reaction (Chicago, 2 December 1942), and the fiftieth anniversary of the Hiroshima explosion (6 August 1945) is approaching. The story of the atomic bomb was told repeatedly by citizens of various nations.
Once upon a time Leo Szilárd, author of 'The Voice of the Dolphins' said: - "I am going to write down all that is going on in the Uranium Project, not for anyone to read, just for God." -... Tovább

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"The galaxy of scientific minds which worked on the liberation of nuclear power, were really visitors from Mars. They found It difficult to speak English without an alien accent, which would give them away, and therefore they chose to pretend to be Hungarians whose inability to speak any language but Hungarian without a foreign accent is well known. It would be hard to check the above statement, because Hungary is so far." - (Fritz Houtermans, who recognized first the nuclear origin of stellar power.)
The world remembered recently the fiftieth anniversary of the first man-made nuclear chain reaction (Chicago, 2 December 1942), and the fiftieth anniversary of the Hiroshima explosion (6 August 1945) is approaching. The story of the atomic bomb was told repeatedly by citizens of various nations.
Once upon a time Leo Szilárd, author of 'The Voice of the Dolphins' said: - "I am going to write down all that is going on in the Uranium Project, not for anyone to read, just for God." - Hans Bethe asked: - "Don't you think God knows the facts?" - Szilárd reacted: - "Maybe he does, but he does not know my version of facts."
Well, this is a Hungarian version of the human quest for nuclear power, based mostly upon interviews. The author knew most of these men personally, visited, invited and interviewed them. He journeyed to Chicago and Los Alamos, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to Chernobyl and Paks. In the end, history (and historians) will judge the facts, myths, intentions and consequences. Vissza