Mr. George Tressel was guest speaker at the Fairfax Lions Club Jan 15 dinner meeting. George discussed the film he wrote, directed and produced: “The Day Tomorrow Began.” It tells the story of a proof-of-concept chain reaction, designated Chicago Pile-1, that occurred on Dec 2, 1942 underneath the University of Chicago’s old football stadium with a team of scientists led by Dr Enrico Fermi. That event was an essential preliminary to development of the atomic bomb that ended World War II. The film includes a video clip of the atomic bomb exploding over Hiroshima. That clip was taken by then Director of Los Alamos Lab – Harold Agnew – who was riding in the B-29 bomber that followed the Enola Gay on the bombing run.
You can watch the entire 30 minute film at this web site: https://nuclearreactions.uchicago.edu/videos/.
Lions Club President Karen Udell Parker Presents Gift to Mr George Tressel
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