If the letters are not sent so much these days, some of them have changed history. Discover 5 letters that changed the course of events.
Albert Einstein’s Letter That Started the Atomic Age
Albert Einstein sent one of the most important letters in US history to President Roosevelt. In this letter dated August 2, 1939, he informs the President that he is working under the direction of scientists like Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard to create a “nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium”. Einstein explains that the result of this realization would be a “an extremely powerful bomb of a new kind”.
He also explains that it would be a formidable weapon of war for the United States, which could be designed by the Germans first if the United States did not react. It does not take more to push President Roosevelt to act. He places his best scientists on the design of this weapon and more particularly the scientist Szilard.
He also promised to finance his projects on nuclear fission. As these funds were slow to arrive, the scientist threatened to divulge all the information necessary to manufacture the atomic weapon. Finally, even getting what he wanted, the scientist confessed to regret the creation of this weapon, since he was afraid to contribute to create an atomic war.
The atomic bomb was then developed in secret through the “Manhattan Project”. It then helped to end the Second World War, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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