> Science In Nazi Germany in 1938, scientists achieved the remarkable: they split an atom. When physicists at Princeton heard the news, they became a " stirred-up ant heap ." Beyond the buzz of the discovery, other repercussions became quickly apparent: Not only did this event, called nuclear fission, create two smaller atoms, but breaking these powerful atomic bonds released a relatively enormous amount of energy. Scaled up, this could mean an atomic bomb. Government gears started churning. Just months later, in April 1939, the German nuclear weapons program, Uranverein, began, which employed brilliant minds like Werner Heisenberg, a genius...