How did humans know that atomic bomb could be a thing?

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Like we all who built it first and all, but how did the humans know that such a weapon could be possible to build with so much capability? Was there research from older scientists and physicists that led to the idea that such a thing was possible and only needed to be built?

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Literally Einstein. e=mc^2
Essentially this means mass *is* energy. Like, super dense energy. Well, actually there isn’t much energy in one single atom (which has mass).

However, within say a single handful of a very dense element is an unfathomable amount of atoms.

From there you just have to ask if mass is energy, can you get it out somehow? Maybe splitting atoms apart? Let’s try that. Or maybe fusing them together, like the sun does?

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