Question

Q2. At the urging of the colleague, Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, on 02 August, 1939, in which he warned: "A single bomb of this type....
exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the
surrounding territory." His words did not fail to have an effect.
a. Why did Einstein write a letter to the American President?
b. What did he think about the atom bomb?
When was the above statement said?
d. Why did his words not fail to have an effect?
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Answer 1

a. Einstein wrote a letter to the American President to warn him about the effect of an atomic bomb.

b. He thought that a single atomic bomb could cause a lot of destruction. It could destroy an entire port and even surrounding territories.

c. His words didn't fail to have an effect because he feared that Nazis could make an atom bomb and use that against the United States.