Recently it was shown in Ref. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140402 (2014)] that in the idealized Dicke model of superradiance there is no entanglement among any partitions of the system during the total evolution time of the system. This result immediately conducts us to question if other measures from quantum information theory can explain the characteristic release of energy in a short time interval. In this work we identify the uncertainty of purely quantum origin as the property responsible for Dicke superradiance. The quantum uncertainty on the population of each emitter of the sample captured by the Wigner-Yanase skew information (WYSI) is proportional to the correlation radiation rate, which is the part of the total radiated power coming from dipole correlations and responsible for releasing in a short time a great intensity of radiation energy. We also show that the correlation measure called local quantum uncertainty, which is the minimization of the WYSI over all local observables, presents a double sudden change induced by environment. The time window between these two sudden changes is used to define the interval in which symmetric global observables of the system behave classically for N → ∞, although the emitters remain strongly quantum correlated.Unveiling the resources behind several intriguing quantum phenomena is a hard task. It is known that for pure state quantum computation entanglement is necessary to obtain an exponential speed-up in the processing time of some quantum algorithms [1-6] when compared to their best classical performance [7]. However, for mixed state quantum computation, necessary conditions are elusive, although quantum discord [8,9] could be a good candidate in the deterministic quantum computation model [10]. There are other protocols in which discordant states are crucial to take advantage from the quantum world: the work extraction by Maxwell's demon [11] What is interesting in all these protocols is that entanglement, which has been in the spotlight for decades, gives way to new kinds of quantum correlations [17,18].By its turn, Dicke superradiance is a cooperative phenomenon in which a sample composed by N identical emitters can release an amount of radiation energy in a time window N times shorter than the characteristic emission time of one isolated emitter and the intensity of the radiation scales with N 2 [19]. The great interest in Dicke superradiance is not only from the point of view of foundational aspects of quantum theory, but also the possibility of building superradiant lasers [20] is relevant for precision measurement science. Furthermore, for efficient collection and transfer of solar energy in light harvesting complexes, plants benefit from the superradiant processes [21][22][23].In the particular case of superradiance in which all emitters are initially excited, the state of the system remains a linear convex combination of Dicke states the whole time. As a Dicke state (see Eq. (5)) is a highly entangled state, except the states |J, J and |J, −J , it * eduardo...