63 years ago today: Fermi andthe world's first self-sust. nuclear chain reaction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1

Just noticed this. Can you imagine being George Weil? "Oops butter fingers!" Heh, heh.

Would "what a long, strange trip it's been" be an appropriate remark? Less than 3 years later, than technolgy leveled two cities. Now it powers a fifth of this country and large fractions of others.