WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE PACIFIC OCEAN THEATER OF WWII
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Question
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Who wrote FDR and told him an atomic bomb was possible to create?
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Albert Einstein
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Bill Nye “The Science Guy”
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Isaac Newton
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -On Aug. 2, 1939, he signed a letter addressed to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, warning that the Nazis might be developing nuclear weapons. Einstein urged the United States to stockpile uranium ore and begin work on its own atomic weapons.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roosevelt decided that the letter required action, and authorized the creation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium.
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