Leo Szilard was waiting to cross the road near Russell Square in London when the idea came to him. It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima ...
Most of the people who were part of the Manhattan Project, the secret government mission which created the first atomic bomb, did not know what they were building. But the scientists did, and some of ...
In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb ... In 1939, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard co-wrote a ...
There once was a Hungarian-born scientist who succeeded in persuading the United States to develop atomic bombs, but failed to stop the bombs from being dropped. Physicist Leo Szilard (1898-1964 ...
The film discusses the pivotal role of physicist Enrico Fermi during World War II, particularly in the development of nuclear ...
unintentional role in the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1939, fearing that Nazi Germany might be working on nuclear weapons, physicist Leo Szilard and others drafted a letter to President ...