Immigrant scientists Albert Einstein (left) and Leo Szilard, among others, initiated the Allied atomic bomb program.
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In 1939, Albert Einstein signed perhaps the most consequential letter of his career: a warning to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt that not only was an atomic bomb possible, but Nazi Germany might be researching the game-changing weapon. German-born Einstein and Hungarian-born physicists Leo...
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