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Einstein's Invention Of The Atomic Bombing

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This chapter was about a letter Einstein had written to President Roosevelt and it began on August 6th, 1945, the day the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The author included a quick flashback to before the invention of the atomic bomb when Leo Szilard decided to flee back to Vienna, and later London because of the Nazis advocating their anti-Semitism message. The idea of nuclear fission, or the idea that led to atomic bombs came from Szilard. He had tried some experiments for it on his own but he only failed. In 1939, two German scientist were successful at splitting an atom and this meant that they may have just developed an atomic bomb. With the scare of Germany being able to make an atomic bomb, Szilard found one of his previous
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