The concern, as Edward Teller saw it, was quite literally the end of the world. He had run the calculations, and there was a real possibility, he told his Manhattan Project colleagues in 1942, that when they detonated the world's first nuclear bomb, the blast would set off a chain reaction. All life on Earth would be incinerated. Some of Teller's colleagues dismissed the idea, but others didn't. If there were even a slight possibility of atmospheric ignition, said Arthur Compton, the director of a Manhattan Project lab in Chicago, all work on the bomb should halt.

Fox News correspondent Rich Edson has the latest on China's accountability on'Special Report' At the end of HBO's miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet nuclear scientist Valery Legosov warns: "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid." We have spent the last 18 months witnessing China's Chernobyl in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just like the Soviet Union during the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, from the earliest days of the pandemic when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has engaged in a concerted campaign to pile lies on top of lies about the virus and its origins. Consider that the CCP refused to allow U.S. Centers for Disease Control experts access to Wuhan, and critical data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that could have helped the world get ahead of the disease suddenly disappeared.