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☆ Einstein's 1939 letter, warning of atomic weapons, just sold at auction for $3.9 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Now, a copy of that letter, also signed by Einstein, has sold at a Christie's auction for $3.9 million. Though Einstein didn't write the letter, his worldwide esteem meant his signature added significance and credibility to the letter. Einstein's influence on the Manhattan ProjectEinstein's letter to Roosevelt sold for nearly $3.9 million at auction. Related storiesFor Szilard and Einstein, the possibility of the Germans creating a nuclear weapon was reason enough to write President Roosevelt. AdvertisementOnce Germany surrendered, however, Szilard and Einstein no longer felt the use of nuclear weapons was justified.

Persons: —, Albert Einstein, Franklin Roosevelt, Einstein, Roosevelt, Franklin, Peter Klarnet, Christie's, Einstein didn't, Paul Allen, Allen, Malcolm Forbes, Leo Szilard's, Szilard, Adolf Hitler's, Bertrand Russell, Russell Organizations: Service, Business, Manhattan Project, Microsoft, Guardian, Manhattan, US Army Intelligence, Einstein Locations: New York, Christie's, Germany, Hungarian, Europe, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Japan

☆ Alexander Karp of Palantir on A.I. Weapons Development - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Alexander C. Karp | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The United States is far from perfect. Our company, Palantir Technologies, has a stake in this debate. At Palantir, we are fortunate that our interests as a company and those of the country in which we are based are fundamentally aligned. It was the raw power and strategic potential of the bomb that prompted their call to action then. It is the far less visible but equally significant capabilities of these newest artificial intelligence technologies that should prompt swift action now.

Persons: Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, Franklin Roosevelt, Einstein, Szilard, “, ” Organizations: Palantir Technologies Locations: United States, Palantir, Ukraine, Russia, Long

☆ Oppenheimer never won a Nobel Prize, but these 31 scientists with ties to the Manhattan Project did
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Manhattan Project: After a harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943, Bohr began consulting on the Manhattan Project. Manhattan Project: Between 1943 and 1944, Muller was a civilian advisor for the Manhattan Project, consulting on experiments studying the effects of radiation. Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963Maria Goeppert Mayer worked on the Manhattan Project and later won the Nobel Prize in physics. Manhattan Project: Working as an assistant to his father, Niels Bohr, Aage Bohr proved instrumental in interpreting for some members of the Manhattan Project. Manhattan Project: At 18, Glauber was still a student at Harvard when he became one of the youngest scientists to join the Manhattan Project.

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☆ Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer? What you need to know before watching Christopher Nolan's biopic
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Caolán Magee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Director Christopher Nolan’s latest creation concerns an earlier existential threat, telling the story of the atomic bomb through the lens of its creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer – played by “Peaky Blinders” star Cillian Murphy. ullstein bild Dtl./ullstein bild/Getty ImagesWho was J. Robert Oppenheimer? Oppenheimer is widely considered the father of the atomic bomb. He quickly rose to prominence as an internationally renowned physicist, employed by the US government to create an atomic bomb to quell the threat of Nazi Germany. In the post-WWII era, as the world entered the Cold War, Oppenheimer was suspected by US intelligence of having ties with communists.

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☆ Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Albert Einstein sent a letter in 1939 that helped convinced FDR to launch the Manhattan Project. But Einstein was not part of the secretive program run by J. Robert Oppenheimer to develop a nuclear weapon. The letter cited the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard's work, and Szilard helped draft the letter, which Einstein signed. The Manhattan Project was officially created in August 1942, months after the US entered the war. The Manhattan Project is the center of a new biopic from director Christopher Nolan.

Persons: Albert Einstein, FDR, Einstein, J, Robert Oppenheimer, Einstein's, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Leo Szilard's, Szilard, Oppenheimer, Eugene Wigner, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy Organizations: Manhattan, Service, US Army Intelligence, American Museum of, . Intelligence, US, Newsweek, The New York Times Locations: Wall, Silicon, Hungarian, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Manhattan

☆ J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In August 1945, the US used atomic bombs on Japan, killing over 100,000 people. Truman didn't actually see the petition before he ordered the bombs to drop, according to the Atomic Heritage Foundation. Read the full petition from the Manhattan Project scientists and their names (provided by Szilard biographer Gene Dannen) below. The liberation of the atomic power which has been achieved places atomic bombs in the hands of the Army. All the resources of the United States, moral and material, may have to be mobilized to prevent the advent of such a world situation.

Persons: Weeks, Harry Truman, Leo Szilard, Szilard, Edward Teller, J, Robert Oppenheimer, Teller, Oppenheimer, Truman didn't, Adolf Hitler's, Hitler, Emilio Segrè, Gene Dannen, Truman, United States — Organizations: Manhattan Project, Service, National Archives Museum, Chicago Met Lab, Manhattan, Los Alamos Laboratory, Atomic Heritage Foundation, OF, UNITED STATES, Army, United States Locations: Japan, Wall, Silicon, United States, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Los Alamos , New Mexico, Los Alamos, Los, Alamos, Manhattan, Germany

☆ Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Here's what he said.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Albert Einstein was famously a pacifist, but he urged the US to develop the atomic bomb. Szilard and two other Hungarian physicists, Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, who were both refugees, told Einstein of their grave concerns. Einstein and Leo Szilard reenacting the signing of their letter to Roosevelt warning that Germany may be building an atomic bomb. Einstein later said, "Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing for the bomb." UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets with Roosevelt in the meeting where they finalized plans for an atomic bomb.

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