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When was the atom bomb thought of?

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The writer H. G. Wells thought of it about 1913 and published his Science Fiction novel The World Set Free with it as the central plot line in 1914.

The physicist Leo Szilard invented the neutron chain reaction (while crossing a London street), which makes both the atom bomb and the atomic reactor work in 1933 and patented it in the UK in 1934. His patent number is GB630726. The patent was classified by the British Navy in 1936 to prevent the Nazis from getting access to it and not made publicly available until 1949.

Werner Heisenberg and others in Germany thought of it just before the outbreak of WW2, when it was discovered by work done in Berlin and Stockholm that Uranium-235 could undergo nuclear fission and release significant amounts of energy.
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