Kapitsa had not forgotten the atomic bomb. “My personal opinion is that the technical difficulties which stand in the way of utilizing intra-atomic energy are still very great,” he said. “This matter is still very doubtful, but it is very probable that there are great possibilities here. We are posing the question of using atomic bombs which possess huge destructive force.”26 A future war would be even more terrible than this one, said Kapitsa, and “therefore scientists should now warn people about this danger, so that all the public figures of the world will strain every nerve to eliminate
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