In a letter dated August 2nd, 1939, Albert Einstein first informed President Roosevelt of the research that had been done by Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard with unstable Uranium which could generate large amounts of power and energy (Einstein1 PSF Safe Files). Einstein also included another possible use for the uranium- the construction of extremely pow

There were three other secret development sites, one being the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago. The task at this lab was to prepare plutonium239 for atomic bombs, but first to prove that the nuclear chain reaction needed to produce that plutonium could actually work, which at that time, many felt, was not necessary to effect the outcome of the war.

It was the influence of Leo Szilard, along with that of Alexander Sachs, that swayed Roosevelt's decision to fund and construct the bomb. To aid the presentation to President Roosevelt, Szilard contacted aviator Charles Lindbergh, to discuss how "large quantities of energy would be liberated" by a "nuclear chain reaction," and also wanted to discuss how "to make an attempt to inform the administration (of the project)." Soon after, however, they discovered that the anti-arms Lindbergh was not one to help them in their request to the President (Lanouette 208). Szilard then went on a mission to find pure graphite for the experiment, (which would be based on Einstein's E=mc2), by exchanging dozens of letters with chemical, carbon, and metallurgical companies, and bargained with manufacturers for contracts of fresh material (Lanouette 209). During this time, Szilard was creating a decisive difference between U.S. and German nuclear efforts. Szilard also inquired to Colonel Keith F. Adamson of the U.S. Army as to funding of the graphite and uranium needed for a large scale experiment, and Adamson estimated that it might only cost $6,000, though this sum eventually swelled to more than $2 billion dollars of funds from the U.S. government (Lanouette 211). Although Einstein later said that he "really only acted as a mailbox" for Leo Szilard, in popular history his famous equation E=mc2 and his letter to President Roosevelt are credited with starting the American effort to build atomic weapons (Lanouette 206).

The brilliant light from the detonation lit up the early morning skies with such intensity that even residents from a far neighboring community swore that the sun came up twice that day. Upon seeing the massive explosion, the reactions of the people who created the bomb were mixed. Physicist Isidor Rabi, a member of the Manhattan Project, felt that the equilibrium in nature had been upset, as if humankind had become a threat to the world it inhabited. Oppenheimer, though pleased with the success of the project, quoted a remembered fragment from The Bhagavad Gita, the most widely-read, ethical text of ancient India, "I am become Death," he said, "the destroyer of worlds." Ken Bainbridge, the test director, told Oppenheimer, "Now we're all sons of bitches."

This action came under the fear that the Germans would be ahead in the construction of the bomb. Since the initiation of the atomic project in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, American policy makers never doubted they would use the weapon if it could be rapidly developed. Roosevelt had also decided by late 1944 not to share information about the bomb with the Soviets (LaFeber 26). Scientist Neils Bohr likened the work of the atomic scientists to the "Alchemists of former days, groping in the da

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