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Enrico Fermi offered to take wagers among the top physicists and army present on whether or not the environment would ignite, and if so whether or not it will destroy just the state, or incinerate the whole planet. This last end result had been previously calculated by Bethe to be nearly impossible, although for some time it had caused a variety of the scientists some nervousness. His personal biggest concern was that nothing would happen, in which case he must head again to the tower to research. Of the several allotropes of plutonium, the metallurgists preferred the malleable δ part. …