2. In the summer of 1939, a few months before World War II started, Albert Einstein and a group of Hungarian scientists wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this letter they warned Roosevelt that the Nazi's were conducting atomic research and that the consequences would be dire if the Nazis were to win the race to build an atom bomb. They recommended that U.S. become involved in uranium research. As a result of this letter, the U.S. joined the atomic race and poured billions of dollars i
Answer (1)
In 1939, Albert Einstein and other scientists warned President Roosevelt that Nazi Germany might be building a powerful new weapon called an atomic bomb. This led the U.S. to start the Manhattan Project in 1942, a secret program to develop its own atomic bomb. By 1945, the U.S. had built and tested the bomb, which was later used in World War II.
