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Subject: Einstein–Szilárd letter (was: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner)
From: Thomas 'Pointed
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From: PointedEars@web.de (Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn)
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je suis charly wrote:

> [corrections I made ca. 12 hours earlier in
> <news:1854950.h90O4IymGf@PointedEars.de>]
>
> The Einstein–Szilárd letter didn't urge the building of bomb. It stated
> the possibility that something might be done with the newly discoverred
> fission in Germany, and Germany seemed suddenly interested in Uranium. It
> suggested the US government decide what to do with the research being done
> in the US.

If you read <http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box5/a64a02.html>, what
do you think Szilárd was referring to with the “experimental work” for which
uranium should be ”secured”, when he wrote about the prospect of building a
bomb just one page before that?

Certainly Alexander Sachs who delivered the letter to Roosevelt, understood
it *also* to be an endorsement to build an atomic bomb:

<http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box5/a64b01.html>

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