Question

Why did the discovery of nuclear fission cause fear ?
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Answer 1

Answer:

December 1938: Discovery of Nuclear Fission. In December 1938, over Christmas vacation, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch made a startling discovery that would immediately revolutionize nuclear physics and lead to the atomic bomb. ... During World War I Meitner volunteered as an x-ray nurse in the Austrian army.

Answer 2

Answer:

Because nuclear fission has a very destructive nature for example you have heard about the effect of nuclear bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb is made by using nuclear fission energy.