A lifelong pacifist, Albert Einstein Feared a Nazi Bomb:click HERE so he signed the warning letter written by émigré Leó Szilárd addressed to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "the Nazis might be developing nuclear weapons."
After Hitler lost WWII and the Nazi Atomic Bomb no longer a threat, Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein opposed the use of the bomb in Japan.
Leó Szilárd letter (signed by Einstein) addressed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The new Oppenheimer movie has just been released giving us a rare opportunity to revisit one of history's most pivotal moments: the Manhattan Project. Patricia found tickets available Sun July 23 at 2 pm (IMAX) at Edwards Aliso Creek. ... let us know if you want to go. We'll gather together for a meal after the screening. Ron has recommended Urban Plates, an excellent restaurant just a few steps from the theater. The film runs 180 minutes, so dinner about 5pm.
109 East Palace by Jennet Conant, one of my favorite books, tells the Manhattan Project story from Dorothy's office on East Palace Avenue in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Every scientist bound for the Secret City of Los Alamos came through her office, and were then spirited away, up the hill, to the secret lab site.
As a kid, I lived in Monte Vista, Colorado, just 154 miles north of what is now Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Later, as a teacher, I met Richard Feynman, the "Boy Genius of Los Alamos" who told the story that...
There was a problem when scientists were away from Los Alamos during the project. All documents, research and notes were to be placed in their office safes each night, but when they were away, their research was often needed. So Richard Feynman learned to crack safes.
It became Feynman's job to access this material when scientists were off campus.
