Source: National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons WHO DOESN'T KNOW THEIR HISTORY… August, 1939. Leo Szilard convinces Einstein to sign a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning of the danger of Nazi Germany developing an atomic bomb. The letter works: the Manhattan Project is born, bringing together some of the most brilliant scientists in history in the New Mexico desert to creat…
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Source: National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons WHO DOESN'T KNOW THEIR HISTORY… August, 1939. Leo Szilard convinces Einstein to sign a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning of the danger of Nazi Germany developing an atomic bomb. The letter works: the Manhattan Project is born, bringing together some of the most brilliant scientists in history in the New Mexico desert to creat…