  "On February 16, 1951, at the atomic energy pilot plant on Huemul Island, San
Carlos de Bariloche, thermonuclear reactions were carried out under control
conditions on a technical scale." This is how Gral. Peron announced, on March
24, 1951, the amazing result of what became known as the Huemul Project. In
this article we review that story of misadventures that, despite its
extravagant development and announced end, came to mean the beginning of
Argentine nuclear development.
