Albert Einstein co-authored with physicist Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, a letter to U.S. President Roosevelt to worry about the risks incurred when Nazi Germany came to create a nuclear weapon.
The "Manhattan Project" will be launched following this letter.
August, 2 1939
Letter from Albert Einstein to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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