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30. Revisionist History - INCORRECT!!!

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For instance, Leo Szilard, the physicist who first realized that radioactivity might give rise to a weapon of incredible destruction, attempted to put that knowledge under a veil of secrecy. He attempted a patent in the UK. He knew what it meant and he did what he could to stop it. Even while FDR was dying, Szilard and others were attempting to stop the use of the monster he had first thought up, and which he, every step of the way, attempted to prevent.

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The above is revisionist history. The USA's effort to develop nuclear weapons, the Manhattan Project; was started because of the famous "Einstein letter". The letter over Einstein's signature updated FDR on the possibility of making a nuclear weapon, and indications that Germany may be in the process of doing so. Hence, the USA needed to begin the effort to develop nuclear weapons as a hedge against Germany doing so.

Although Einstein signed the letter, he didn't write it. The person that actually wrote the famous "Einstein letter" was Leo Szilard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_letter

The Einstein–Szilárd letter was a letter sent to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2, 1939, that was signed by Albert Einstein.

However, the letter was largely written by Leó Szilárd in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner.

The letter suggested that the U.S. should begin its own research because of the potentially vast destructive power of atomic bombs. Einstein, Szilárd, Teller and Wigner were among a number of concerned scientists who initially feared Nazi Germany would develop the weapon first.

Contrary to the claim that Leo Szilard was attempting to stop the development of nuclear weapons; Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner; were encouraging the USA to develop nuclear weapons technology, because they were afraid that Nazi Germany would develop nuclear weapons first, and have a monopoly on nuclear weapons, as the USA did at the end of World War II.

http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html

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