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Einstein warned President Roosevelt about the dangers of nuclear weapons from "summary" of Albert Einstein by Walter Isaacson
In the summer of 1939, as the clouds of war gathered over Europe, a small group of Hungarian scientists who had fled Hitler's regime persuaded Albert Einstein to sign a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt. The letter warned that Nazi Germany might be developing an atomic bomb and urged the United States to do the same. Einstein was not part of the Manhattan Project, the U. S. effort to build an atomic bomb, but his letter helped spur Roosevelt to set it in motion. Einstein’s warning to Roosevelt about the dangers of nuclear weapons was not just a matter of theoretical physics or academic curiosity. He understood the potential for immense destruction that such weapons could unleash on the world. His own work had laid the foundation for the development of nuclear technology, and he felt a moral responsibility to ensure that it was used for peaceful purposes. Einstein’s letter to Roos...
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