Question

A) "at the urging of a colleague, einstein wrote a letter to the american president, franklin d. roosevelt, on 2 august 1939…" what was the letter about? what effect did it have?

Answer 1

Answer:

On Aug. 2, 1939, he signed a letter addressed to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, warning that the Nazis might be developing nuclear weapons. Einstein urged the United States to stockpile uranium ore and begin work on its own atomic weapons