CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer : In August 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt who was then the President of the U.S. The main purpose of writing the letter Einstein to Franklin Roosevelt was to alert him about the Nazis. He warn that the Nazis were working on a strong and new weapon that could make an atomic bomb.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Letter to the President In August 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The physicists persuaded Einstein to send Roosevelt a letter outlining the threat and suggesting that the president make “permanent contact” with American physicists working toward a similar atomic capacity.

Detailed explanation-4: -Einstein had written to inform Roosevelt that recent research on fission chain reactions utilizing uranium made it probable that large amounts of power could be produced by a chain reaction and that, by harnessing this power, the construction of “extremely powerful bombs” was conceivable.

Detailed explanation-5: -Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt because he wanted to warn America that Germany had the ability to build and use the atomic bomb which if exploded in a port, would destroy the entire port as well as some of the surrounding territory.