CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Franklin D Roosevelt was the American president. Einstein wrote in his letter that a single nuclear bomb would make mass destruction. So, this was the main purpose of Einstein’s letter to American President Franklin Roosevelt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Einstein–Szilard letter was a letter written by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein on August 2, 1939, that was sent to President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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: -So, Einstein warned Roosevelt of the consequences of employing the atomic bomb. His words had a great impact on Roosevelt. Therefore, the atomic bombs were developed by America secretly. America dropped these atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese cities, in August 1945.