In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech ... Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements like uranium and plutonium split to release lots of energy. Fermi fled ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech ... Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements like uranium and plutonium split to release lots of energy.

However, this too is a little more complicated, as the uranium atom was first split in 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in December 1938, in Germany. It seems that some New ...

During nuclear fission, an unstable uranium atom is split in half, which releases a large amount of energy. Clean burning and effective, it takes only a small amount of uranium to create a large ...

BBC Bitesize A simple model of an atom shows a nucleus orbited by ... Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements like uranium and plutonium split to release lots of energy.