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The Manhattan Project | Devastating Success | 3
American History Tellers
A Scientist's Plea for Restraint
This chapter explores Leo Szilard's attempts to urge restraint and careful consideration of the consequences of revealing the bomb's power, including recruiting Albert Einstein and collaborating on a letter to President Roosevelt's successor. It also highlights Oppenheimer's dismissal of Szilard's ideas and a physicist's decision not to engage with a petition generated by Szilard.
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