... world" (6). Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicists in the United States, were frightened by the possibility that Germany might produce the atomic bomb. They insisted that Albert Einstein inform President Roosevelt about the possibility of the Germans making an atomic bomb. On August 2nd, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II ... , Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a online article, Mary Bellis states that "Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which coul...

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... Hitler would develop the bomb first, so the US was determined to create the bomb before the Germans did. A man by the name of Leo Szilard and other scientists asked Albert Einstein to use his influence and write a letter to plead to President Franklin Roosevelt to support further research on the power of nuclear fission. This letter explained that Nazi scientists were ... already developing a way to purify Uranium-235 to use in an atomic bomb. Einstein's influence was a success and the Manhattan Project was established. The ultimate goal of this project was to successfully separate Uran...

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