NYC, Bronx and gas explosion
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After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A key figure in this history was Enrico Fermi, who abandoned Fascist Italy in 1938 and emigrated to the US, where he worked on the Manhattan Project and built the first nuclear reactor, in Chicago, in 1942.
A massive brick chimney running 20 stories up the side of a New York City apartment building collapsed after an explosion, sending tons of debris plummeting to the ground