On This Day August 2

Albert Einstein sent a letter to President Roosevelt on August 2, 1939 suggesting America start researching the atom bomb with war looking imminent in order to prevent Germany making it first. Roosevelt agreed to set up the project to build the bomb under J. Robert Oppenheimer, with Einstein's special theory of relativity forming its theoretical basis. Einstein later reacted to the destructive elements of the atom bomb by saying. "If only I had known I should have become a watchmaker."

A copy of the letter

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