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Question 5 Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?

Class 9 - English - A Truly Beautiful Mind Page 51

Answer 1

This refers to a famous letter that was actually written by Leo Szilard, on behalf of Albert Einstein. The letter was signed by Einstein and delivered to the then president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, on the 2nd of August 1939 in the early states of World War II.
The letter is historically important since in it, Einstein described how the Nazi Regime in Germany had started working on an Atomic Bomb which was more powerful than any weapon in History.
This letter alerted the US and allied forced and eventually left to the start of the Manhattan project as a collaboration between US and the British Empire
By the end of the Manhattan project, the allied forced had the most advanced weapon on the planet.

Answer 2

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In the chapter 'A Truly Beautiful Mind,' Albert Einstein wrote the first letter to the American President,  Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War in order to warn him about the atomic bomb developed by Germany. He feared that the bomb based on the principle of nuclear fission could create mass destruction by destroying a port along with its surrounding territory. This letter made a deep and rapid impact as it led America to develop its own atomic bombs for military defense. These bombs were later dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. These bombs caused large scale destruction which greatly disturbed Einstein.