Einstein letter warning FDR of threat of Nazi nuclear bomb set to fetch $4m
Two-page letter written by physicist and fellow scientist, for sale at Christieβs, urged US government to invest in research
A two-page letter written by Albert Einstein warning Franklin D Roosevelt β then the president of the US β that Nazi Germany might harness nuclear research to invent an atomic bomb is going up for sale at Christieβs auctioneers in September with an estimate value of $4m.
Einsteinβs letter β one of two the theoretical physicist drafted in a cabin on the north shore of New Yorkβs Long Island with a fellow scientist, Leo Szilard β warned that the German government was actively supporting nuclear research and could make βextremely powerful bombsβ like the kind that were eventually deployed by the US at the end of the second world war.
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