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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We knew how to split atoms long before development on any atomic bomb began. We knew that splitting just one atom was powerful enough to make a single grain of sand move a bit. (incredibly impressive for just one atom.) The trick was how to get a ton of atoms to split and release their energy all at the exact same time.

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