12 Incredible Facts About The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs

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EINSTEIN WARNS OF ATOMIC BOMBS On August 2 1939 Albert Einstein signed a historic letter It was Germany to the United States in 1933 That was just before the Nazi addressed to President Franklin Party came to power Delano Roosevelt Einstein was a In December 1938 German famous physicist He'd moved from physicists reported they had split a uranium atom Other scientists N who had fled Europe brought this discovery to Einstein's attention Splitting a uranium atom released a lot of energy They worried this technology could be used to create a deadly bomb Einstein was already well known in the United States The other scientists urged Einstein to contact the president They thought Roosevelt might listen to him One of those scientists Leo Szilard drafted a letter for Einstein In it he told the president that the Germans research could create extremely powerful bombs On October 11 1939 Roosevelt received Einstein's letter He Albert Einstein