Einstein Called E=mc² His Greatest Mistake
Early 20th Century

Einstein Called E=mc² His Greatest Mistake

A patent clerk in Bern scribbled one equation at the tail end of an ignored paper, and forty years later it killed 200,000 people in Japan.

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