On 16 July 1945, as scientists at Los Alamos in New Mexico prepared to detonate the first atomic bomb, they had tried to allay their fears that the explosion might set off a chain reaction by igniting nitrogen in the atmosphere or hydrogen in the oceans, ending life on Earth, by calculating that the risk was less than three in one million.
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On 16 July 1945, as scientists at Los Alamos in New Mexico prepared to detonate the first atomic bomb, they had tried to allay their fears that the explosion might set off a chain reaction by igniting nitrogen in the atmosphere or hydrogen in the oceans, ending life on Earth, by calculating that the risk was less than three in one million.