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The atom was not first split in 1942. It was first split in the Berlin laboratory of Otto Hahn, in 1938. Hahn and his student Fritz Strassman bombarded uranium with neutrons and studied the results; they detected barium in the debris, something Hahn thought was impossible. How could you get a lighter nucleus from a heavier one?
Is there any connection between splitting the atom and a few years later getting the first sitings of UFOs? Like it sent of some radiowave that lets other forms of life acknowledge our point in evolution aka. the education of Man...