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Einstein and Szilard on the veranda, Princeton 1939
On the veranda of his house in Princeton, Albert Einstein sits in 1939 with Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard at a table, both discussing a document. Szilard, together with physicists Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, had conceived the idea of warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the danger of a German atomic weapons program after nuclear fission had been discovered in Berlin in late 1938. As an émigré with little access to the White House, Szilard enlisted the internationally renowned Einstein for the initiative. These deliberations produced the letter of 2 August 1939, seen as the impetus for the later Manhattan Project.
- Period
- c. 1939–1955
- Credit
- The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH
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- 0' 11"
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