Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?
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A Letter to the President
In August 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it.
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Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt because he wanted to warn America that Germany had to ability to build and use and atomic bomb which if exploded in a port, would destroy the entire port as well as some of the surrounding territory.
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