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A letter signed by physicist Albert Einstein, in which he urged US President Franklin Roosevelt to draw up a program to develop the nuclear bomb, will be auctioned next September, the BBC reported.
In this letter dated August 2, 1939, a month before the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the start of the Second World War, the famous physicist warned Franklin Roosevelt of the interest of Adolf Hitler’s regime in nuclear research.
He thus points out the risk that the Nazis would end up developing a bomb of a power out of all proportion to the arsenal then at the disposal of the great powers.
“Sir (…) recent work in nuclear physics has made it probable that uranium will become a new and considerable source of energy”, we can read at the beginning of this letter.
“It is plausible, but less certain, that bombs of a new type, extremely powerful, will see the light of day,” he writes again.
