Secret conference in Berlin leading to research program, ban on Uranium exports, provisions for supplies of radium. Public debate in in Washington on Physics. Fermi and Anderson set up a new project involving measuring neutron production in a tank of liquid. Fermi and Anderson leave to pursue other things Szilard comes up with the idea to use graphite as a moderator, rather than water. Through correspondence with Fermi, the idea of using graphite becomes steadily more plausible.
Physicists learn that German intelligence had discovered the beginning of Uranium research.
Premier Eduardo Daladier, Mussolini, Hitler, and Chamberlain met in Munich and decide to evacuate Sudentenland. Briggs, Sachs, Szilard, Wigner, Teller, Roberts, Adamson, and Hoover meet to discuss war and physics. Chain reaction experiments get funding. Vom Rath dies leading to Anti-Semitic riot leaving at least 100 people dead. Work begins in USSR toward making an atomic bomb.