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| With the out break of World War II, Bohr took an active part in the anti-Nazi resistance movement in Denmark. When Nazis occupied Denmark in 1940, his life became difficult since Bohr had Jewish origins on his mother’s side. In 1943, under the threat of being arrested, he escaped with his family to Sweden by a fishing boat. He was then flown to England to begin work on the project to make a nuclear fission bomb. He did participate in the atomic bomb project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, but his concern about such an awesome weapon was clear. Bohr stated that a free exchange of people and ideas among countries was necessary to attain control of nuclear weapons. Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award in 1957. |