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Einstein’s Pivotal Letter to FDR

By Jon Hersey

Aug 01, 2018
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On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein, a German Jew who fled to America after Hitler came to power, sent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a letter that would play a critical role in America’s victory in WWII.1 The letter was the idea of fellow expatriate physicist Leó Szilárd, in consultation with Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, who were concerned that …

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