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Einstein's Letter (Synthesis)

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Einstein's Letter( Synthesis) Einstein’s letter was instrumental in the outcome of World War 2. With Leo Szilard’s persistence and Albert Einstein’s fame, a letter was written to Franklin D. Roosevelt that set up an arms race between Germany and the United States.
Leo Szilard was the one of the first physicists to test nuclear fission and he learned that energy could be created if a nucleus of an uranium atom was split. Szilard knew instantly that this discovery could lead to a weapon of mass destruction. During this time the United States had not yet entered the war but the German War Machine had already conquered most of Europe. Leo knew that the Germans found out about nuclear fission because the German occupied Czechoslovakia was no
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