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“He was…a major force in starting the whole atomic bomb effort. He was really instigator of the letter that was sent to Roosevelt, that started the Manhattan Project. He and Edward Teller went to Einstein and convinced him to put his name on this letter…Szilard was very politically active. We see this in the Oppenheimer movie: he’s the one with the petition, trying to get the demonstration of the bomb. He was a gadfly. He was somebody who was always going against the grain, annoying people, but also making them think about things. He always had out-of-left-field ideas, but very interesting ones. Szilard was distraught by nuclear weapons.” Read more...
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