The first 'splitting of an atom' was by Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson,At The University of Manchester,Manchester,England in 1917,This discovery proceeded into the development of a Nuclear weapon. The Manhattan Project,in Los Alamos,USA On the 16th July 1945 detonated the first atomic bomb.Those involved in the making of the bomb were:
Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller.
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