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To: I_Love_My_Husband
Einstein to Roosevelt, August 2, 1939
Documents on the decision to use the atomic bomb
Leo Szilard Online

It's easy to let political differences and political partisanship obscure the true enormity of Szilard's accomplishments. He managed to convince the United States to invest an enormous amount of time and effort in developing an untried weapons technology - despite divided scientific opinion. He was that sure of his physics and that forceful in presenting it. That's what the first document is about.

The second details the development of the man's moral approach to atomic weapons.

The third is an overview of his life and achievements.

Sorry to be so slow but this research takes time - more time than a real-time conversation allows.

331 posted on 06/18/2003 3:23:00 PM PDT by liberallarry
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To: Chad Fairbanks
The beginning of the thread has a lot of info.
332 posted on 06/19/2003 5:27:52 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: liberallarry
Not to mention that Szilard and Einstein had about 45 joint patents for several types of refigerators. Einstein was always a tinkerer even from his Patent Office days.
333 posted on 06/19/2003 8:45:09 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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