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Description: My souvenir shop - https://vk.com/loonymerch My telegram - https://t.me/loonydrom https://zen.yandex.ru/loony - Yandex Zen Support: https://boosty.to/loony - Boost https://www.donationalerts.com/r/loon... - Donate Description: There are many cases in the history of mankind when military technologies found their application in civilian life. These include the invention of tin cans for the needs of Napoleon's army, and the development of the GPS system at the direction of the US Department of Defense ... Or here is another striking example. In 1942, a nuclear weapons development program called the Manhattan Project was launched in America. Then Washington sought to play ahead and gain an advantage over Nazi Germany. As soon as the program became known in the USSR, they resumed work on the study of the atom, suspended due to the war. Igor Kurchatov was appointed head of the Soviet "atomic project". It is he who is credited with the phrase: "The atom should not be a soldier, but a worker." Because those events can be considered the beginning of the path from nuclear weapons to peaceful atoms. By the end of the decade, scientists in both the US and the Soviet Union began to think about how to use atomic energy for creative, rather than destructive purposes. And today we will touch on this very topic, the topic of nuclear energy, and try to understand its most significant moments. How did humanity come to use atomic energy? How safe is this industry for people and the environment? What are its prospects? Is it true that scientists are already close to obtaining energy from thermonuclear fusion? And what is this "little Sun on Earth"? Make some tea, get out the cookies, and I will try to cover the topic as accessible and interesting as possible, because to some extent it concerns all of us. Let's go!